Ezh

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Ezh ( uppercase : Ʒ , lowercase : ʒ ; pronounced [ ˈɛʒ ], Unicode U + 01B7 and U + 0292) is a letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) ; it represents the voiced postalveolar fricative . Example: Gage [ˈga: ʒə] .

Ezh is in some orthographies Skoltsamischen language used as a point, both without the addition and with a Hatschek ( Ǯ Ǯ). These sometimes refer to voiced alveolar or post-alveolar affricata . The letter is also found in the orthographies of some African languages, for example in the Aja language of Benin and the Daghbani language of Ghana , where the capital variant looks like a mirrored sigma ( Σ ). The ʒ is also used in Middle High German .

origin

The shape of this symbol is originally an older variant of the letter z, the z with underslung .

As a phonetic symbol, the letter Ezh comes from Isaac Pitman's alphabet from 1847, as a z with an added hook. The symbol is based on the form of the Latin z in broken font . In Unicode, however, the Fraktur letter z ( tapered Z or Z with underscore ) is considered a variant of z and not Ezh.

In contexts where the tailed Z (or Z with sub-loop ) as opposed to the tailless Z (or Z without sub-loop ) is used, especially in the standard transcription of the Middle High German , sometimes the Unicode character is used ʒ, strictly speaking, this is incorrect . Instead, Unicode offers ȥ (z with tick) as a grapheme for the Middle High German coronal fricative in contrast to the affricate marked with z (z without tick) .

Ezh is an abbreviation for dram

In Unicode , a character standard that allows symbols to be processed by computers or devices that work with them, the ezh is used as an abbreviation for the unit of dram , a unit of pharmacist weight used in England and North America.

Ezh and Yogh

In the first version of Unicode the letter was merged with Yogh , although the two letters are of completely different origins. This may be because the two letters look similar and do not appear together in any alphabet. In the Unicode 3.0 yogh was then two separate code points ( Majuskel U + 021C and minuscule assigned U + 021D).

Ezh and the number three

The capital Ezh looks similar to the number 3 . To distinguish the two characters, the Ezh in the upper part has the zigzag curve of the small z , while the 3 at the top is round.

However, there is a modification of the number 3, which looks almost like the Ezh. This modification was created to prevent the 3 from being changed into an 8 on loans.

Presentation on the computer

With LaTeX the Ezh can be represented with the help of the fc fonts . The corresponding commands are \m Zfor the large and \m zfor the small Ezh.

literature

  • Kelly, John: The 1847 alphabet. An episode of phonotypy . In: RE Asher, Eugénie JA Henderson (Ed.): Towards a history of phonetics . University Press, Edinburgh 1981, ISBN 0-85224-374-X , pp. 248-264.

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