Pseudo-IPA characters for Russian

[Peter Kirk]

In "A Comprehensive Russian Grammar" by Terence Wade (2nd edition, 
Blackwell 2000), one of the best respected descriptions of Russian, 
there is a list of "symbols from the IPA... used... for the phonetic 
transcription of Russian words" (p.2). I was surprised to find that many 
of these symbols are not in Unicode, perhaps for the good reason that 
they are not actually in IPA, as officially described in 
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/fullchart.html.

Most of the missing symbols are for palatalised consonants, and consist 
of a base character (any of pbtdkgfvszxmnlr -  g should actually be 
U+0261)  with a left-pointing hook on their right-hand side. This is 
presumably U+0321, and so these characters can in principle be formed by 
combination with this hook. This is described in the charts as well as 
IPA, but apparently it isn't. Can anyone clarify?

The palatalised forms of g and v look more as if they have an attached 
comma, below v and to the right of g, but presumably this is a font issue.

There is also a character which looks like U+0269 with a bar. I suppose 
the bar could be U+0335, but is that the right way to represent this 
character? This is intended as a relaxed variant of U+0268, so possibly 
should be written U+026A U+0308.

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