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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Heng | |
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| Ꜧ ꜧ | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Unified Northern Alphabet |
| Sound values | |
| In Unicode | U+A726,U+A727 |
Heng is a letter of the Latin alphabet, originating as a typographic ligature of h and ŋ. It was originally used for a voiceless [j]-like sound in Dania transcription of the Danish language (in Dania, it is considered a ligature of h and j).
Heng was used word-finally in early transcriptions of Mayan languages, where it may have represented a uvular fricative.
It is sometimes used to write Judeo-Tat.[citation needed]
Heng has been occasionally used by phonologists to represent a jocular phoneme in English, which includes both [h] and [ŋ] as its allophones, to illustrate the limited usefulness of minimal pairs to distinguish phonemes. /h/ and /ŋ/ are separate phonemes in English, even though no minimal pair for them exists due to their complementary distribution.[1]
Heng is also used in Bantu linguistics to indicate a voiced alveolar lateral fricative [ɮ].[2] Heng was also historically used in the IPA for this sound, and later a compromise form between the two symbols ⟨
⟩ was used.
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Forms with an uppercase based on H |
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Forms with the stem, bowl and loop based on the lowercase form; used in the Unified Northern Alphabet and some other Latin alphabets of the Soviet Union.[3] | |
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Form used in some Chechen and Ingush typefaces in the 1920s and 1930s. |
Both U+A726 Ꜧ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER HENG and U+A727 ꜧ LATIN SMALL LETTER HENG are encoded in Unicode block Latin Extended-D; they were added with Unicode version 5.1 in April 2008. The superscript U+AB5C ꭜ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG is in Latin Extended-E, added in Unicode 7.0 in June 2014. As of 2026,[update] a proposed latin capital letter enlarged small heng for remains unencoded.
A variant form, U+0267 ɧ LATIN SMALL LETTER HENG WITH HOOK, is encoded as part of the IPA Extensions Block. It is used to represent the voiceless palatal-velar fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet. U+10797 𐞗 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG WITH HOOK is used as a superscript IPA letter.[4]
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Heng is a letter of the Latin alphabet, originating as a typographic ligature of h and ŋ. It was originally used for a voiceless [j]-like sound in Dania transcription of the Danish language (in Dania, it is considered a ligature of h and j). Heng was used word-finally in early transcriptions of Mayan languages, where it may have represented a uvular fricative. It is sometimes used to write Judeo-Tat. Heng has been occasionally used by phonologists to represent a jocular phoneme in English, which includes both [h] and [ŋ] as its allophones, to illustrate the limited usefulness of minimal pairs to distinguish phonemes. /h/ and /ŋ/ are separate phonemes in English, even though no minimal pair for them exists due to their complementary distribution. Heng is also used in Bantu linguistics to indicate a voiced alveolar lateral fricative [ɮ]. Heng was also historically used in the IPA for this sound, and later a compromise form between the two symbols ⟨⟩ was used.
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Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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