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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Romani ćiriklo (“bird, sparrow; háček”); compare ̼ (seagull).
Pronunciation
Noun
čiriklo
- (rare, only in reference to the diacritics use in Romani) A háček (marking palatalisation when written atop a consonant, iotation when written atop a vowel).
1990, Roma, Roma Publications, page 43:Preyotization is indicated by means of the “čiriklo” ˇ.
1995, Yaron Matras, editor, Romani in Contact, J. Benjamins, →ISBN, page 197, →ISBN:Palatalisation of d, l, n, t is marked only by a čiriklo (ˇ) (term coined by M. Courtiade).
1997, Victor A. Friedman, “Linguistic form and content in the Romani-language press of the Republic of Macedonia”, in Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Hristo Kyuchukov, editors, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 185, →ISBN:RS follows standard East European practice of using the wedge (haček, čiriklo) to indicate the strident palatals (š, ž, č, dž).
2003, Victor A. Friedman, Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond, page 157:j or haček (čiriklo) over following vowel
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:čiriklo.