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H with left hook (, ) is an additional letter of the
Latin script The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia. The Gree ...
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 The Sotho-Tswana, also known as the Sotho or Basotho, although the term is now closely associated with the Southern Sotho peoples are a meta-ethnicity of Southern Africa. They are a large and diverse group of people who speak Sotho-Tswana ...
language in 1929.


Usage

A._N._Tucker_proposed_Sotho-Tswana_alphabet_-_1929.png, link=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._N._Tucker_proposed_Sotho-Tswana_alphabet_-_1929.png, 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 The Sotho-Tswana, also known as the Sotho or Basotho, although the term is now closely associated with the Southern Sotho peoples are a meta-ethnicity of Southern Africa. They are a large and diverse group of people who speak Sotho-Tswana ...
language in 1929, with a capital form based on the form of the capital letter H.
Clement Martyn Doke Clement Martyn Doke (16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages. Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are qu ...
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 Sepedi, also known as Northern Sotho, is one of South Africa’s twelve official languages and belongs to the Bantu language family, specifically the Sotho-Tswana group. The language is spoken mainly in Limpopo Province, and to a lesser exten ...
. File:Abaza latin alphabet.jpg, Abaza alphabet from the 1930s., link=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaza_latin_alphabet.jpg File:Кабардинские алфавиты.PNG, 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. Latin_capital_H_with_left_hook.svg, link=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_capital_H_with_left_hook.svg, Capital form proposed by A. N. Tucker for the Sotho-Tswana language in 1929. Latin_capital_letter_enlarged_small_H_with_left_hook.svg, link=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_capital_letter_enlarged_small_H_with_left_hook.svg, Capital form used in the Abaza and Kabardian languages.


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Latinisation in the Soviet Union Latinisation or latinization ( ) was a campaign in the Soviet Union to adopt the Latin script during the 1920s and 1930s. Latinisation aimed to replace Cyrillic and traditional writing systems for all languages of the Soviet Union with Latin ...
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