ɣ

Linguae multae

Notatio

E gamma Graeca γ.

Symbolus

Ɣ, ɣ

1. (API, linguae Africanae) Littera consonantem fricativam, velarem, et sonoram significans.
2. Littera click^? dentalem et sonoram significans.

Loci

saec. XX.

• 1923: The voiced dental click I write ɣ and the nasal [n with right loop]. — A Dissertation on the Phonetics of the Zulu Language, Clement Martyn Doke, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London
• 1930: ɣ for the ‘voiced velar fricative’ sound as in the colloquial pronunciation of g in German Lage. — Practical Orthography of African Languages