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The letter yogh (Ȝ ȝ; Middle English: image:yogh.gifogh) was used in Middle English and Middle Scots, representing y (IPA: /j/) and various velar phonemes. Velars are sounds that are usually made when the back of the tongue is pressed against the soft palate. They include the k in cat, the g in girl, and the ng (IPA [ŋ]) in hang. Some Lowland Scots words have a z in place of, gaberlunzie, 'a licensed beggar', tuilzie, 'a fight', capercailzie (from capall-coille, now normally spelt capercaillie in English); likewise the Scottish proper names listed below. "Shetland" was also written "Zetland" for a number of years, possibly as a corruption of Old Norse "Hjaltiland". Image File history File links Letter yogh. ... Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion in 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the... Image File history File links Yogh. ... Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion in 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the... This article needs cleanup. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate (the back part of the roof of the mouth, known also as the velum). ... Scots or Lallans (Eng: Lowlands), sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from the Gaelic language of the Highlands, is a West Germanic language used in Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland, and border areas of the Republic of Ireland, where it is known in official circles as Ulster Scots or... This article is about the bird. ... See Shetland (disambiguation) for other meanings. ...

Yogh used for /x/: God spede þe plouȝ & sende us korne inolk
Yogh used for /x/: God spede þe plouȝ & sende us korne inolk

Yogh is shaped like the Arabic numeral three (3), which is sometimes substituted for the character in online reference works. It would seem that there is some confusion about the letter in the literature, as the English language was far from standardised at the time. The insular form of G — pronounced either [joʊk], [joʊg], [joʊ] or [joʊx] — came into Old English spelling via Irish. It stood for /g/ and its various allophones — including /g/ and the voiced velar fricative [ɣ] — as well as the phoneme /j/ (y in modern English spelling). In Middle English, its form developed into yogh, which stood for the phoneme /x/ as in niȝt (night, then still pronounced as spelled: [nixt]). Sometimes, yogh stood for /j/ or /w/, as in the word ȝoȝelinge [ˈjaʊlɪnge] = yowling. In the late Middle English period, yogh was no longer used: niȝt came to be spelled night. Middle English re-imported G in its French form for /g/. Download high resolution version (1405x1057, 40 KB)Ploughmen. ... Download high resolution version (1405x1057, 40 KB)Ploughmen. ... Arabic numerals (also called Hindu numerals or Hindu-Arabic numerals) are by far the most common form of symbolism used to represent numbers. ... Insular G is an s-shaped form of the letter g used in the British Isles. ... Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... The Carolingian G or French G is one of two historical variants of the letter G which were in use in the Middle English alphabet, the other variant was the insular G. The Carolingian G stands at the basis of the modern letter G, and eventually replaced the insular G...


In medieval Cornish manuscripts, yogh is used to represent the voiced interdental fricative: ȝoȝo, now written dhodho, pronounced [ðoðo]. The Cornish language (in Cornish: Kernowek, Kernewek, Curnoack) is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages that includes Welsh, Breton, the extinct Cumbric and perhaps the hypothetical Ivernic. ...


It was the Normans whose scribes despised non-Latin characters and certain spellings in English and therefore replaced the yogh in words with the letters gh; still, the variety of pronunciations elaborated, as evidenced by cough, trough, and though. But not every word that contains a gh was originally spelled with a yogh: for example, spaghetti is Italian, where the h makes the g hard; ghoul is Arabic, in which the gh was the velar fricative mentioned above. The Normans (adapted from the name Northmen or Norsemen) were a mixture of the indigenous people of France and the Viking invaders under the leadership of Hrolf Ganger, who adopted the French name Rollo and swore allegiance to the king of France (Charles the Simple). ...


The medieval author named Orrm used this letter in three ways when writing Old English. By itself, it indicated the sound /j/, so he used this letter for the y in "yet". Doubled, it was the sound /i/, so he ended his spelling of "may" with two yoghs. And the digraph of yogh followed by an h indicated the voiced velar fricative /γ/. The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ...


In Unicode 1.0 the character yogh was mistakenly unified with the quite different character Ezh (Ʒ ʒ), and yogh was not correctly added to Unicode until Unicode 3.0. Ezh (capital , lowercase ) is a character in the IPA. Also called the tailed z, it represents a voiced postalveolar fricative (SAMPA: [Z]), appearing in e. ...


The glyph yogh can be found in surnames that start with Y in Scotland and Ireland, such as the surname Yeoman and sometimes spelled Yoghman.


List of modern Scottish proper names with <z> representing <ȝ>

  • Culzean - pronounced culain (IPA /kʌˈleɪn/)
  • Dalziel - pronounced deeyel (IPA /di:ˈɛl/), from Gaelic Dail-gheal; also spelled Dalyell.
  • Finzean - pronounced fingen (IPA /ˈfɪŋən/)
  • MacKenzie - originally pronounced makenyie (IPA /məkˈenjɪ/), from Gaelic MacCoinnich; now usually pronounced with /z/
  • Menzies - most correctly pronounced mingis (IPA /ˈmɪŋɪs/), from Gaelic Mèinnearach; now controversially also pronounced with /z/
  • Winzet - pronounced winyet (IPA /ˈwɪnjət/)

Culzean Castle. ... A clan name from Scotland. ... Mackenzie may refer to: People People or person with the surname or last name MacKenzie: Mackenzie Jones (Suzanne clan) Clan MacKenzie (Scottish clan) Alastair MacKenzie (b. ... Rt Hon Robert Menzies Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia serving eighteen and a half years. ... Ninian Winzet (1518 - 1592), Scottish polemical writer, was born in Renfrew, and was probably educated at the university of Glasgow. ...

External links

  • Michael Everson's essay "On the derivation of YOGH and EZH"
  • BBC on the use of the letter in Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell's first name
Latin alphabet Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Qq | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz
Modified characters Àà | Áá | Ââ | Ää | Ãã | Āā | Ąą | Ăă | Ǎǎ | Çç | Ĉĉ | Čč | Ćć | Đđ | Ďď | Èè | Éé | Êê | Ëë | Ęę | Ēē | Ĕĕ | Ėė | Ěě | Ĝĝ | Ğğ | Ġġ | Ģģ | Ǧǧ | Ĥĥ | Ħħ | Ìì | Íí | Îî | Ïï | Įį | İı | Ĩĩ | Īī | Ĭĭ | Ĵĵ | Ķķ | Ǩǩ | Ĺĺ | Ļļ | Ľľ | Ŀŀ | Łł | Ńń | Ņņ | Ňň | Òò | Óó | Ôô | Öö | Õõ | Őő | Ǫǫ | Ōō | Ŏŏ | Ơơ | Ŕŕ | Ŗŗ | Řř | Śś | Ŝŝ | Şş | Șș | Šš | Ťť | Ŧŧ | Ţţ | Țț | Ùù | Úú | Ûû | Üü | Ũũ | Ūū | Ŭŭ | Ųų | Ůů | Űű | Ưư | Ŵŵ | Ýý | Ŷŷ | Ÿÿ | Źź | Žž | Żż
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It is used in writing the Ewe language to represent a voiceless bilabial fricative (IPA: ), as distinct from the letter F, which represents a voiceless labiodental fricative. ... The character g-stroke Ǥ/Ç¥ is a letter of the Latin Skolt Sami alphabet, denoting the partially voiced palatal spirant (i. ... Romany letter (G with háček, Unicode code points U+01E6 and U+01E7) is a letter used in the Romany and Skolt Sami languages. ... The letter (miniscule: ) is a letter that has been used in various Latin orthographies for Turkic languages, such as Azeri or the Janalif orthography for Tatar. ... Hwair (lowercase , uppercase ) is a letter from various medieval Latin alphabets, which is currently still used in the transcription of the Gothic alphabet. ... IJ is a letter from the Dutch alphabet used to represent the diphthong or . ... č Å¡ ž A caron ( ˇ ), also known as a háček (pronounced ), is a diacritic placed over certain letters to indicate present or historical palatalization or iotation in the orthography of Baltic languages and some Slavic languages, whereas some Finno-Lappic languages use it to mark postalveolar fricatives... This article lacks information on the subject matters importance. ... Kra (ĸ) is a character used when writing the Kalaallisut language spoken in Greenland. ... LJ is pronounced as LY. It is a latin form of a letter present in many slavic languages such as Serbo-Croatian. ... LL may stand for: Love Letter Late Latin The word legis (Latin for laws) in law degrees Lebanese pound, Livre Libanaise in French Linked list, a type of data structure Little league Long lines, a term for a long-distance telephone network Limited liability LL parser The rapper LL Cool... A middle dot is one of several types of dots that occur in the middle of a character space, such as the examples in the following table. ... Ñ or enye, (Spanish eñe) represents a palatal nasal (IPA: ). This is reminiscent of as in onion IPA: . It is the fifteenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, alphabetized between N and O. Though English keyboard schemes classify it as an N with a tilde, it is a separate letter in... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The eng is a letter: ÅŠ (capital), Å‹ (small). ... Å’ Å“ This article is about the ligature, not the simple combination of the letters O and E. For initialisms and the word Oe, see Oe. ... Ø, ø is a vowel and a letter used in the Danish, Faroese and Norwegian alphabets. ... č Å¡ ž A caron ( ˇ ), also known as a háček (pronounced ), is a diacritic placed over certain letters to indicate present or historical palatalization or iotation in the orthography of Baltic languages and some Slavic languages, whereas some Finno-Lappic languages use it to mark postalveolar fricatives... Open o (majuscule: Ɔ, miniscule: É”) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. ... The letter Ou () is a letter in the extended Latin alphabet. ... The r rotunda in a Latin Bible of AD 1407, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... The title of this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The glyph ß is a ligature of Å¿ (long s) and s or z that has become a distinct letter in the German alphabet; its German name is Eszett (IPA ) or scharfes S (sharp S). ... The esh is a letter: Æ© (upper-case), ʃ (lower-case). ... č Å¡ ž A caron ( ˇ ), also known as a háček (pronounced ), is a diacritic placed over certain letters to indicate present or historical palatalization or iotation in the orthography of Baltic languages and some Slavic languages, whereas some Finno-Lappic languages use it to mark postalveolar fricatives... Wynn () (also spelled Wen) is a letter of the old English alphabet. ... (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet used in modern Old and Middle High German to a represent a coronal fricative, which in the original texts was written with Z. As Z was also used to represent a voiceless alveolar affricate, a hook was added to distinguish the two... Ƶ is a variant used in hand-written equations by mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for the letter Z, so as not to confuse the symbol with the numeral 2. ... (lowercase , Ezh) is a character in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), representing the voiced postalveolar fricative. ... The character ezh-caron Ç®/ǯ is a letter of the Latin Skolt Sami alphabet, denoting a partially voiced postalveolar affricate. ... Þþ The letter Þ (minuscule: þ), which is also known as thorn or þorn is a letter in the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets. ...


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Take Our Word For It, page one - Spotlight (563 words)
We are missing at least three letters: thorn, edh and yogh, all of which were present in Old English script.
While we might think of it as a t with a curly tail or a g with a flat hat, the Scots looked at surviving yoghs and saw them as being a variant form of z.
Hence the curious spellings of the name Menzies and the bird known as the capercailzie, in neither of which is the z pronounced.
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