Typedesc: | ic |
Script: | Latin script |
Type: | alphabet |
Usageperiod: | 1920-30 |
Phonemes: | pronounced as /link/ |
Equivalents: | Ъ, ӏ |
Letter: | |
Direction: | left to right |
Alphanumber: | 11th |
Language: | Abaza language, Kabardian language, proposed for Sotho-Tswana languages |
H with left hook (, ) is an additional letter of the Latin script which was used in the writing of the Abaza and the Kabardian languages in the 1920s and was proposed for the writing of the Sotho-Tswana language in 1929.
A. N. Tucker used h with left hook in his proposal for an aphlabet for the Sotho-Tswana language in 1929, with a capital form based on the form of the capital letter H.
Clement Martyn Doke used h with left hook to represent a prevelar fricative notably in the description of the Pulana and Kutswe dialects of the Northern Sotho language.
H with left hook was used in the writing of certain languages of the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
H with left hook has not yet been encoded in Unicode.