Turned P (
P d) 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 orthographies of certain
Siouan languages
Siouan ( ), also known as Siouan–Catawban ( ), is a language family of North America located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.
Name
Authors who ...
, mostly by
James Owen Dorsey
James Owen Dorsey (October 31, 1848 – February 4, 1895) was an American ethnologist, linguist, and Episcopalian missionary in the Dakota Territory, who contributed to the description of the Ponca, Omaha, and other southern Siouan languages. He ...
in the 19th century. Its lowercase form is used in the
Anthropos alphabet
Americanist phonetic notation, also known as the North American Phonetic Alphabet (NAPA), the Americanist Phonetic Alphabet or the American Phonetic Alphabet (APA), is a system of phonetic notation originally developed by European and American a ...
, the phonetic alphabet of the journal ''Anthropos''.
This letter has the form of a turned
P, namely turned 180 degrees.
Usage
James Owen Dorsey used turned P in his published works to represent [], a Tenseness, tense consonant present in three Dhegihan languages, the Omaha–Ponca language, Omaha-Ponca language, the Quapaw language, Quapaw language, and the Kansa language, Kansa language. It is also used for the Osage language, but this is erroneous as the sound
ːdoes not exist, but a preaspirated
pconsonant corresponds.
In the
Anthropos transcription, is used to represent the
bilabial click
The bilabial clicks are a family of click consonants that sound like a smack of the lips. They are found as phonemes only in the small Tuu language family (currently two languages, one down to its last speaker), in the ǂ’Amkoe language ...
.
File:Turned T and Turned P in Dorsey, Omaha Sociology, 1884.png, Turned P, in Dorsey 1884.
Computing codes
Turned P has not yet been encoded in
Unicode
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.
Notes and references
Bibliography
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copie sur omahatribe.unl.edu
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See also
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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 ...
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P
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Komi De
Komi De (Ԁ ԁ; italics: '')'' is a letter of the Molodtsov alphabet, a version of Cyrillic. It was used only in the writing of the Komi language in the 1920s.
The lowercase form resembles the lowercase of the Latin letter D (d ) and its ...
, a
homoglyph
In orthography and typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more graphemes, character (computing), characters, or glyphs with shapes that appear identical or very similar but may have differing meaning. The designation is also applied to sequence ...
of this letter
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Latin script