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Reversed eʒ/Ƹayin
Ƹ ƹ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script International Phonetic Alphabet
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Arabic language Romanization of Arabic
Sound values	[ʕ]
In Unicode	U+01B8, U+01B9
History
Development	ع ـع ـعـ عـ ع Ƹ ƹ
Sisters	O Ʒ ߋ ߜ ࠏ ݝ ݟ ڠ ݞ ࢳ ᴥ 𐎓 ჺ 𐫙 ࡘ 𐢗 ʕ ʢ
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-right
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Ƹ (minuscule: ƹ) is a letter of the Latin script. It was used for a voiced pharyngeal fricative, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʕ], in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, for example by John Rupert Firth and Terence Frederick Mitchell, or in the 1980s by Martin Hinds and El-Said Badawi.^[1]

Although it looks like a reversed ezh (Ʒ), it is based on the Arabic letter ʿayn (ع).^[1] (Unicode, however, refers to it expressly as "reversed ezh.")

• J. R. Firth (1948). "Sounds and prosodies". Transactions of the Philological Society. 47 (1). 27–152. doi:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1948.tb00556.x.
• Martin Hinds; El-Said Badawi (1986). A dictionary of Egyptian Arabic. Beirut: Librairie du Liban. ISBN 9789953865225.
• T. F. Mitchell (1952). "The Active Participle in an Arabic Dialect of Cyrenaica". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 14 (1). University of London. 11–33. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00084160. JSTOR 608504. S2CID 191614835.
• T. F. Mitchell (1953). "Particle-Noun Complexes in a Berber Dialect (Zuara)". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 15 (2). University of London. 375–390. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00111152. JSTOR 608556. S2CID 122785020.
• T. F. Mitchell (1956). An introduction to Egyptian colloquial Arabic. London: Oxford University Press.
• T. F. Mitchell (1960). "Prominence and Syllabication in Arabic". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 23 (2). University of London. 369–389. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00149997. JSTOR 609703. S2CID 119423726.
• T. F. Mitchell (1962). Colloquial Arabic. London: Teach Yourself Books. ISBN 0-340-05774-2.
• Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-68535-7.

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