What ꭜ means
It marks a phonetic detail in specialist dialect notation. Its clearest documented setting is Teuthonista, also called Böhmer-Ascoli, a system for recording differences in spoken Germanic and Romance dialects. Teuthonista or closely related systems were also used for Romance dialect research in Switzerland and Italy. The raised modifier belongs within a transcription; its key explains the sound it marks.
The system grew from 19th-century phonetic work: the Egyptologist Carl Richard Lepsius published a general sound alphabet in 1855; the Italian dialectologist Graziadio Ascoli devised a related system in 1873; Eduard Böhmer published notation for vowel letters in 1880; and Philipp Lenz introduced a system in 1900. The Teuthonista journal began publication in 1924 and gave the notation its name; Hermann Teuchert adapted Lenz's system for it in 1924–1925.
How does ꭜ differ from ꜧ and ɧ?
ꭜ is a raised modifier; ꜧ and ɧ are distinct letters. Unicode defines ꭜ as the raised modifier form of ꜧ, the base Latin heng letter. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a system for writing speech sounds, has a different character, ɧ. It represents a consonant made with friction at the back of the mouth and near the sh sound position at once; some Swedish dialects use it for the spelling sj. That sound value belongs to ɧ, not ꭜ.
Specialist phonetic notation; its exact sound depends on the transcription system.
Without the transcription key, don't guess its sound from the glyph alone.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Can NFKC change ꭜ?
Yes. NFKC is a text-normalization form that treats compatibility variants as equivalent; it maps ꭜ to ꜧ and removes the raised-modifier distinction.
How to type ꭜ
ꭜ\AB5CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.