Latin Extended-F is a

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...

containing modifier letters, nearly all IPA and

extIPA The Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet for Disordered Speech, commonly abbreviated extIPA , are a set of letters and diacritics devised by the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association to augment the Internati ...

, for

phonetic transcription Phonetic transcription (also known as Phonetic script or Phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or ''phonetics'') by means of symbols. The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, such as the ...

. The Latin Extended-F and -G blocks contain the first Latin characters defined outside of the

Basic Multilingual Plane In the Unicode standard, a plane is a contiguous group of 65,536 (216) code points. There are 17 planes, identified by the numbers 0 to 16, which corresponds with the possible values 00–1016 of the first two positions in six position hexadecimal ...

(BMP). They were added to the free Gentium Plus and Andika fonts with version 6.2 in February 2023. Some computers have 𐞃, 𐞎 and 𐞥 supported on the font

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. In 2020, the International Phonetic Association endorsed the encoding of superscript IPA letters in a proposal to the Unicode Commission for broader coverage of the IPA alphabet. The proposal covered all segmental IPA letters that were not yet supported, including the implicit retroflex letters , as well as the two length marks and old-style affricate ligatures.Kirk Miller & Michael Ashby
L2/20-252R
Unicode request for IPA modifier-letters (a), pulmonicKirk Miller & Michael Ashby
L2/20-253R
Unicode request for IPA modifier letters (b), non-pulmonic. A separate request by the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association for an expansion of

coverage endorsed superscript variants of all extIPA fricative letters, specifically for the fricative release of consonants.

Block

U+10786 and U+107B1 were proposed for superscript ꞵ and ꭓ (that is, for Latin variants of and ) but were not assigned, with the points left reserved.Deborah Anderson, Manish Goregaokar, Jan Kučera, Ken Whistler, Roozbeh Pournader, and Peter Constable
''Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals''
2024-04-18

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Latin Extended-F block:

References

{{reflist Latin-script Unicode blocks Unicode blocks