Talk:Ƹ

Latin? Really?

I am skeptical about the assertion that this is "a letter of the Latin alphabet". Since when did Latin ever have pharyngeals? Or voiced fricatives for that matter? Unless I am very badly misinformed, someone must have added (or proposed adding) this letter at some later point in time for some purpose entirely unrelated to Latin. The article really needs to clarify those details, as they seem like the most important thing to know about the character. --Jonadab, 2022 Nov 24 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonadab~enwiki (talk • contribs) 04:02, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

PronunƸiation

How does one pronounce /Ƹ/, and in what language is/was it used? It seems like one of those "odd" latin letters that is used in African languages, or an IPA rejected letter. Is it a postalveolar consonant, like the voiced postalveolar plosive, or is it palatal? --bibliotheque (Talk) 02:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

It represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative. --Ptcamn 11:28, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Pharyngeals are notoriously difficult to learn to pronounce, for anyone who doesn't natively speak a language that has them. (Most languages don't have them.) Your best bet is to find a native speaker of Arabic (by far the best-known language that has both pharyngeals and native speakers), ideally one who is also a linguist and lives near you, and ask them to teach you. --Jonadab, 2022 Nov 24 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonadab~enwiki (talk • contribs) 04:13, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Ezh reversed

Ezh /Ʒ ʒ/ of lazian language is a IPA. Phonetic speaking are [lɑːtɪŋ ʃmɔl lɛttɛːr ɛʒh wɪtɥ cʊrːl], [lɑːtɪŋ ʃmɔl lɛttɛːr ɛʒh wɪtɥ tɑɪl]. Are you doing letter a that was sound a [yɛːz], [dzɛːʃh]. 37.215.36.202 (talk) 06:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)