H with left hook

H with left hook (, ) is an additional letter of the Latin script which was used in the writing of the Abaza and the Kabardian languages in the 1920s and was proposed for the writing of the Sotho-Tswana language in 1929.

H with left hook

Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Abaza language, Kabardian language, proposed for Sotho-Tswana languages
Sound values	[ʔ]
Alphabetical position	11th
History
Development	
Time period	1920-30
Transliterations	Ъ, ӏ
Variations
Other
Writing direction	left to right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Usage

• 
  Sotho-Tswana alphabet proposed by Tucker in 1929.

A. N. Tucker used h with left hook in his proposal for an aphlabet for the Sotho-Tswana language in 1929, with a capital form based on the form of the capital letter H.^[1]

Clement Martyn Doke used h with left hook to represent a prevelar fricative notably in the description of the Pulana and Kutswe dialects of the Northern Sotho language.^[2]

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  Abaza alphabet from the 1930s.
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  Kabardian alphabets throughout history, showing h with left hook.

H with left hook was used in the writing of certain languages of the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

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  Capital form proposed by A. N. Tucker for the Sotho-Tswana language in 1929.
• 
  Capital form used in the Abaza and Kabardian languages.

Computing codes

H with left hook has not yet been encoded in Unicode.

Notes and references

1. Tucker 1929, p. 132, 135.
2. Doke 1954, p. 122, 249.

Bibliography

• Doke, Clement Martyn (1954). The Souther Bantu languages. International African Institute, Oxford University Press.
• Joomagueldinov, Nurlan; Pentzlin, Karl; Yevlampiev, Ilya (2012). Revised proposal to encode Latin letters used in the Former Soviet Union (PDF).
• Tucker, A. N. (1929). The comparative phonetics of the Suto-Chuana group of Bantu languages.

See also

• Latinisation in the Soviet Union