Talk:Latin alpha

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Really? -- Prince Kassad 18:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, really. Unicode labels U+0251 ɑ as Latin alpha. Citing it is going to be hard; I'll need to see if there's a use in the Unicode Standard, the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association, perhaps Geoffrey & Pullum (though I'll probably have to ILL that, and it's not worth it), etc. But it is real.

Google Groups turns up "Look at the n shaped Eng (Ŋ) used in Africa vs the N shaped on use in Scandinavia, the Azeri schwa or African turned E (Ə) vs. the other turned E (Ǝ), the n shaped N with long right leg (Ƞ) used in Lakota, the Latin alpha (ɑ/Ɑ) used in Africa, the r with tail (ɽ) shaped

capital R with tail (Ɽ) vs. that capital R shaped, and other historical letters." which would be great if it were in a newsgroup.--Prosfilaes 19:30, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

I have found two citations so far. - -sche (discuss) 20:16, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

There are a few more citations of "Latin alpha" or "Latin alpha character", but they seem to mean "Latin alphabet character" (as "alpha" is short for "alphabet"). For now, I've made the entry an {{only in}} Wikipedia redirect. The entry should be recreated if a third citation can be found in one of the books Prosfilaes mentions. - -sche (discuss) 20:50, 21 August 2011 (UTC)