Saltillo (letter)

The Saltillo ( Spanish for 'little jump': Ꞌ, lower case ꞌ) is a letter of the Latin writing system . The letter looks like an apostrophe , but is always straight, never at an angle. The letter is used to write several languages, especially the Mixtec languages or local varieties of Nahuatl , but also for various African languages to represent the voiceless glottal plosive . The main difference between the apostrophe and the apostrophe, which is sometimes used for this role, is that the saltillo is an uppercase and lowercase letter.

Representation on computer systems

Unicode contains the Saltillo at the code points U + A78B (uppercase) and U + A78C (lowercase).

Web links

Peter G. Constable, Lorna A. Priest: Document L2 / 06-259R: Proposal to Encode Additional Orthographic and Modifier Characters. (PDF) Unicode Consortium, October 20, 2006, accessed October 15, 2015 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ Carl Wohlgemuth: Gramática Nahuatl (Meja ꞌ Taito l) de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz: Segunda edición (versión electrónica) . Ed .: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 2002, ISBN 968-31-0315-4 , pp. 4–5 (Spanish, online at SIL International [PDF; accessed October 15, 2015]).

[1] Carl Wohlgemuth: Gramática Nahuatl (Meja ꞌ Taito l) de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz: Segunda edición (versión electrónica) . Ed .: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. 2002, ISBN 968-31-0315-4 , pp. 4–5 (Spanish, online at SIL International [PDF; accessed October 15, 2015]).