B, ʙ (''small capital B'') is an extended Latin letter used as the lowercase B in a number of alphabets during romanization. It is also used in the
International Phonetic Alphabet to denote a
voiced bilabial trill
The voiced bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is B\.
Features
Features of the voiced ...
. In the
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA) or Finno-Ugric transcription system is a phonetic transcription or notational system used predominantly for the transcription and reconstruction of Uralic languages. It was first published in 1901 by Eemil Ne ...
, it denotes a
semi-voiced bilabial stop consonant.
It was also used in the writing of medieval Icelandic to denote
geminated
In phonetics and phonology, gemination (), or consonant lengthening (from Latin 'doubling', itself from '' gemini'' 'twins'), is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant. It is distinct fr ...
B.
Use
To avoid the appearance of
homoglyph
In orthography and typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more graphemes, characters, or glyphs with shapes that appear identical or very similar. The designation is also applied to sequences of characters sharing these properties.
Synoglyphs ...
s with a letter, during
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
latinisation, the alphabets of the
Sami
Acronyms
* SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft
* Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company
* South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise net ...
,
Abaza,
Komi,
Tsakhur,
Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani may refer to:
* Something of, or related to Azerbaijan
* Azerbaijanis
* Azerbaijani language
See also
* Azerbaijan (disambiguation)
* Azeri (disambiguation)
* Azerbaijani cuisine
* Culture of Azerbaijan
The culture of Azerbaijan ...
,
Kurdish and
Bashkir languages, as well as the
New Turkic alphabet
New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created.
New or NEW may refer to:
Music
* New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz
Albums and EPs
* ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013
* ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, ...
, the
Unified Northern Alphabet
The Unified Northern Alphabet (UNA) (russian: Единый северный алфавит) was created during the Latinisation in the Soviet Union for the "small" languages of the North.
Systematic work on the development of writing in the lan ...
and the project of reform of the
Udmurt script used
ʙ as the lowercase form of the letter
B. The letter also was used in the Adyghe and Hebrew-Tajik alphabets, although they were absent.
In the Middle Ages, the author of the
First Icelandic Grammatical Treatise used 'ʙ' to transcribe geminate B.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, / ʙ / represents a voiced bilabial trill. The symbol was adopted following the
1989 Kiel Convention.
In the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, ‹ʙ› represents a semi-voiced bilabial stop consonant, denoted
̥᪽or
̥with the International Phonetic Alphabet, as opposed to ‹b› representing a voiced bilabial stop consonant.
File:Sami alphabet 1933.jpg, The Sami alphabet in 1933
File:Abaza latin alphabet.jpg, Abaza alphabet of the 1930s
File:Komi latin alphabet.PNG, Komi Alphabet in 1934
File:Tsakhur alphabet (1934).JPG
File:Unified Northern Alphabet.jpg
File:Adyghe latin alphabet (1927).svg
Unicode
The letter has been present since the very first version of the
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, ...
standard and is located in the
IPA Extensions
IPA Extensions is a block (U+0250–U+02AF) of the Unicode standard that contains full size letters used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Both modern and historical characters are included, as well as former and proposed IPA sign ...
block as code point .
Computing codes
See also
*
B (the Latin letter)
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Ve (Cyrillic)
Ve (В в; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced labiodental fricative , like in "vase".
The capital letter Ve looks the same as the capital Latin letter B but is pronounced differently.
Ve is ...
, В
*
List of Latin letters
This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the ...
*
Small capital letters
In typography, small caps (short for "small capitals") are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters (capitals) but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures. This is technicall ...
References
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Phonetic transcription symbols
Latin-script letters