Small capital reversed R

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Not to be confused with the Cyrillic letter Я.

Latin small capital reversed R
ᴙ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Phonetic usage	[r͉] [ʀ̥] [ʢ]
History
Development	ᴙ
Sisters	Ʀ ʀ ᴚ ʁ ꝶ ꭆ Я я R r
Other

An example of this character in Gentium Book Plus; The image above is Times New Roman.

An example of this character in Doulos SIL.

The (Latin) (letter) small capital reversed R ⟨ᴙ⟩ is a letter of the Latin script.

It is only used in phonetics and is encoded in the Unicode block "Phonetic Extensions", which could be the reason it is lowercase only.

This character in fonts, even if the same, can look different on different operating systems, but this probably isn't unique to this character.

Alphabetically, It comes after the Latin letter R rotunda ⟨Ꝛ ꝛ⟩ and comes before the Latin letter Small capital R with right leg ⟨ꭆ⟩

History

In the Finno-Ugric transcription, rotated letters indicate reduced sounds, such as shorter vowels. Small capital letters denote voicelessness. However, ɹ is already used for the alveolar approximant in the IPA and couldn't be used for a reduced alveolar trill, while ᴚ is used for a devoiced alveolar approximant in the Finno-Ugric transcription, so mirroring is used as a last-resort substitute for rotation.

Appearance

It is similar in appearance to the Cyrillic letter Я я, but is distinct from it and is probably based off of a reversed small capital version of the Latin letter R.

Usage of ᴙ and ᴎ

These symbols have these usages:

Phonetics (rare)

ᴙ is rarely used in phonetics for an epiglottal trill.

Finno-Ugric transcription

ᴙ is used in the Finno-Ugric transcription to represent a weakly trilled [r] (approximately [r͉] in the (ext)IPA).

Finno-Ugric transcription (small capital reversed n)

An example of the small capital reversed n

There is also a similar character small capital reversed n (ᴎ ᴻ, lowercase and superscript only), which is used in the Finno-Ugric transcription to represent the voiceless velar nasal /ŋ̊/, which is similar to the pronunciation of the ng in the word anything, but voiceless. It looks similar to the Cyrillic letter И и, and in fact many earlier UPA documents used Cyrillic letters, but the structure of the UPA itself makes it clear that reversed Latin letters are intended.

Obsolete IPA

ᴙ was used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a voiceless uvular trill, it was withdrawn in 1912 and has been replaced by ⟨ʀ̥⟩, a diacritic combination of the symbol small capital r ⟨ʀ⟩, which represents the voiced uvular trill and a ring diacritic ⟨◌̥⟩, which indicates voicelessness, and thus the IPA no longer has a dedicated symbol for the voiceless uvular trill.

Computing codes

Character	ᴙ
Unicode name	LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL REVERSED R
Encodings	decimal	hex
Unicode	7449	U+1D19
UTF-8	0 180 153	Template:UTF-8/3 B4 99
Numeric character reference	ᴙ	ᴙ

More codes include: \u1D19 for C, JavaScript, JSON, and Java, \001D19 for CSS, \x{1D19} for Perl, \u1D19 for Python, \u{1D19} for Ruby, and %E1%B4%99 for URL Escape Code.

To type "ᴙ" in Windows, hold alt, type +, type 1D19, release alt. and to to type "ᴙ" in Linux, hold ctrl+shift, type U 1D19, release ctrl+shift.

See also

• Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• History of the International Phonetic Alphabet
• List of Latin-script letters

References

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