Turned P (P d) is an additional letter of the Latin script which was used in the orthographies of certain Siouan languages, mostly by James Owen Dorsey in the 19th century. Its lowercase form is used in the Anthropos alphabet, the phonetic alphabet of the journal Anthropos.[1]

Turned P
Usage
Typealphabetic
Language of originSiouan languages, Anthropos phonetic alphabet
Sound values[pː], [ʰp]
In Unicodenone
History
Development
  • Turned P
Time period19th century, 1907 onwards
Other
Writing directionleft-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.

This letter has the form of a turned P, namely turned 180 degrees.

Usage

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James Owen Dorsey used turned P in his published works to represent [], a tense consonant present in three Dhegihan languages, the Omaha-Ponca language, the Quapaw language, and the Kansa language. [citation needed] It is also used for the Osage language, but this is erroneous as the sound [pː] does not exist, but a preaspirated [ʰp] consonant corresponds.

In the Anthropos transcription, p is used to represent the bilabial click.

Computing codes

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Turned P has not yet been encoded in Unicode.[1]

Notes and references

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Bibliography

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  • Dorsey, James Owen (1884). "Omaha Sociology". Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1881-'82: 211–370., copie sur omahatribe.unl.edu.
  • Dorsey, James Owen (1888). "Osage Traditions". Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1884-'85: 377–408..
  • Dorsey, James Owen (1897). "Siouan Sociology: A Posthumous Paper". Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1893-'94: 269–294. (www.unl.edu).
  • Everson, Michael; Dicklberger, Alois; Pentzlin, Karl; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline (2011). Revised proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS (PDF).

See also

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