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◌˞, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
◌˞ in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
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◌˞ will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
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Translingual
There are precomposed Unicode characters for the inline rotic vowels
⟨ɚ⟩ and
⟨ɝ⟩, but not for the superscript forms (shown here), which require the combining hook:
⟨ᵊ˞⟩,
⟨ᶟ˞⟩.
Etymology
- An abbreviated cursive 𝓇 joined to the vowel.
Diacritic
◌˞
- (IPA) A rhotic hook; the standard diacritic used to show rhotacism
Synonyms
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User notes
⟨ʳ⟩ and ⟨ʴ⟩ are obsolete as generic IPA markers of a rhotic vowel. However, especially narrow transcription of English dialects may indicate a rhotic vowel with a more-precise choice of articulation than ⟨◌˞⟩, such as ⟨ᶹ⟩, ⟨ʴ⟩ or ⟨ʵ⟩, for example , or for the phoneme /ɑ˞/.
References
- “The International Phonetic Alphabet (revised to 2015)”, in IPA Association, 2015, retrieved 6 August 2017
