Z with hook (majuscule: Ȥ, minuscule: ȥ) is an additional letter of the Latin script. The Unicode standard notes "Middle High German" for the application of the grapheme, intended to represent the coronal fricative s also transcribed as tailed z . The -character is used in modern printings of Medieval German literature to indicate those cases of pronounced as [s] (in such a case, modern German now uses ). In contrast, the -character is pronounced as ts, as is still the case in modern German.[1] And the -character is pronounced as z.
See also
- Middle High German
- High German consonant shift
- Middle High German literature
- Ʒ (ezh)
- Ɀ (z with swash tail)
- Ⱬ (z with descender)
- Ƶ (z with stroke)
References
- ^ Wright, Joseph (1917). A Middle High German Primer. Oxford University Press. p. 24.