H with left hook

H with left hook

File:Latin capital H with left hook.svg
File:Latin small letter H with left hook.svg
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Abaza language, Kabardian language, proposed for Sotho-Tswana languages
Sound values	[ʔ]
Alphabetical position	11th
History
Time period	1920-30
Transliterations	Ъ, ӏ
Variations	File:Latin capital H with left hook.svg
Other
Writing direction	left to right

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.

Usage

• 
  Sotho-Tswana alphabet proposed by Tucker 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.

• Abaza alphabet from the 1930s.
  Abaza alphabet from the 1930s.
• Kabardian alphabets throughout history, showing h with left hook.
  Kabardian alphabets throughout history, showing h with left hook.

H with left hook was used in the writing of certain languages of the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

• Capital form proposed by A. N. Tucker for the Sotho-Tswana language in 1929.
  Capital form proposed by A. N. Tucker for the Sotho-Tswana language in 1929.
• Capital form used in the Abaza and Kabardian languages.
  Capital form used in the Abaza and Kabardian languages.

Computing codes

H with left hook has not yet been encoded in Unicode.

See also

• Latinisation in the Soviet Union