Ɇ (lowercase: ɇ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from E with the addition of a diagonal stroke through the letter. It is used in the 1989 orthography of the Mazahua language, where it represents [ɛ], as well in a few other languages of Mexico such as Chinantec of Ojitlán or Chichimeca Jonaz language.[citation needed]
Both the capital and lowercase variants of E with stroke were added to Unicode in 2004. In the Secretaría de Educación Pública de México's alphabet for the Indigenous language Mazahua, the version of a letter with a slash through it is used to mark a nasalized vowel.[1]
Ɇ is also used in some alphabets for the Tlahuica language (also known as Pjyɇkakjo or Ocuiltec). In these alphabets, the slash indicates a centralized version of a vowel, so ɇ represents a mid central vowel [ə].[2]
Jacques Pelletier du Mans used ɇ in his proposal for the reform of French orthography Dialoguɇ Dɇ l’Ortografɇ e Prononciation Françoęſɇ (1550), but this failed to gain traction.[3]
Code positions
[edit]| Preview | Ɇ | ɇ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL E WITH STROKE | LATIN SMALL E WITH STROKE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 582 | U+0246 | 583 | U+0247 |
| UTF-8 | 201 134 | C9 86 | 201 135 | C9 87 |
| Numeric character reference | Ɇ |
Ɇ |
ɇ |
ɇ |
References
[edit]- ^ Moyogo Jacquerye, Denis (22 January 2016). "L2/16-032: Proposal to encode two Latin characters for Mazahua" (PDF). Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- ^ Muntzel, Martha; Martínez, Aileen (2014). "El Alfabeto Práctico Pjyɇkakjo". Estudios de Cultura Otopame. 9. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- ^ Peletier du Mans, Jacques (1550). Dialoguɇ Dɇ l’Ortografɇ e Prononciation Françoęſɇ (in French). Poitiers: E. de Marnef. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
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