Now I start to wonder if the description would be "Letter for phonetics and Japanese phonology" or "Letter for scholarly transcription" etc.
2016-12-27 18:54 GMT+09:00 Denis Jacquerye <moy...@gmail.com>: > For what it’s worth, the small capital q was used as an IPA symbol for a > while. It was used for the Arabic ʻayn as a “consonne roulée gutturale” in > the 1898 IPA chart (previously noted 3 in the 1894 IPA charts and ᴈ in some > 1895 IPA charts and later charts) then as a “consonne fricative bronchiale > sonore” in the 1905 and 1908 IPA charts, and in the notes after the IPA > chart in 1912. It was eventually replaced with the reversed glottal stop ʕ, > for example in the 1932 IPA chart or later charts.
