What ᷧ means
It marks a reduced a vowel in Teuthonista transcription.
Teuthonista is a system for recording spoken dialects. This mark belongs to a set of combining letters used to record fine sound differences. The notation developed through related efforts: Lepsius's 1855 system influenced Romance-language work by Ascoli in 1873; Philipp Lenz had developed another system by 1900, which the Teuthonista journal adapted from 1924. These are stages in a history, not the work of one inventor.
A Southwest German atlas guide gives this alpha mark the value of a reduced a in unstressed positions, including word-final syllables. Related Böhmer-Ascoli work applied the broader notation to Romance and Germanic dialects; individual projects also developed their own sign sets. So the surrounding transcription system matters when reading the mark.
How do I type ᷧ?
Put it after the letter it modifies.
In a Unicode-aware editor, insert U1DE7 after the base letter. It is a combining mark, so its position in the character sequence connects it to that preceding letter.
This mark belongs to specialist dialect transcription, not ordinary prose.
ᷧ is not Greek α: it modifies a host letter rather than standing alone.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ᷧ look wrong by itself?
It can. A combining mark is positioned relative to its host letter, and fonts or fallback rendering can place it differently. Judge its appearance after a base letter in a font that supports Teuthonista characters.
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How to type or find ᷧ
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- Teuthonista · dialect transcription · reduced a · phonetic mark · combining alpha
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ᷧ\1DE7Codes and encoding1 code points
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