H with left hook
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Language of origin	Abaza language,Kabardian language, proposed forSotho-Tswana languages
Sound values	[ʔ]
Alphabetical position	11th
History
Time period	1920-30
Transliterations	Ъ,ӏ
Other
Writing direction	left to right
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H with left hook () is an additional letter of theLatin script which was used in the writing of theAbaza and theKabardian languages in the 1920s and was proposed for the writing of theSotho-Tswana language in 1929.

A. N. Tucker used h with left hook in his proposal for an aphlabet for theSotho-Tswana language in 1929, with a capital form based on the form of the capital letter H.^[1]

Clement Martyn Doke used h with left hook to represent a prevelar fricative notably in the description of thePulana andKutswe dialects of theNorthern Sotho language.^[2]

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

Kabardian alphabets throughout history, showing h with left hook (column 2, towards the bottom).

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

• Doke, Clement Martyn (1954).The Souther Bantu languages. International African Institute, Oxford University Press.
• Joomagueldinov, Nurlan; Pentzlin, Karl; Yevlampiev, Ilya (2012).Revised proposal to encode Latin letters used in the Former Soviet Union(PDF).
• Tucker, A. N. (1929).The comparative phonetics of the Suto-Chuana group of Bantu languages.

• Latinisation in the Soviet Union

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