Turned P

Turned P
P p
Usage
Typealphabetic
Language of originSiouan languages, Anthropos phonetic alphabet
Sound values[pː], [ʰp]
History
Development
P p
  • P p
Time period19th century, 1907 onwards
Other
Writing directionleft-to-right
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Turned P (P p) is an additional letter of the Latin script which was used in the orthographies of certain Siouan languages, mostly by James Owen Dorsey in the 19th century. Its lowercase form is used in the Anthropos alphabet, the phonetic alphabet of the journal Anthropos.

This letter has the form of a P and p turned 180 degrees.

Usage

Dorsey used turned P P p in his published works to represent [pː], a tense consonant present in three Dhegihan languages: Omaha-Ponca, Quapaw, and Kansa.[citation needed] It is also used for Osage, but this is erroneous as the sound [pː] does not occur, but a preaspirated [ʰp] consonant corresponds.[citation needed]

In the Anthropos phonetic alphabet, p is used to represent bilabial clicks.

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