čiriklo
See also: ćiriklo
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Romani ćiriklo (“bird, sparrow; háček”); compare ̼ (seagull).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editčiriklo
- (rare, only in reference to the diacritics use in Romani) A háček (marking palatalisation when written atop a consonant, iotation when written atop a vowel).
- 1990, Roma[1], Roma Publications, page 43:
- Preyotization is indicated by means of the “čiriklo” ˇ.
- 1997, Victor A. Friedman, “Linguistic form and content in the Romani-language press of the Republic of Macedonia”, in Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Hristo Kyuchukov, editors, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 185, →ISBN:
- RS follows standard East European practice of using the wedge (haček, čiriklo) to indicate the strident palatals (š, ž, č, dž).
- 2003, Victor A. Friedman, Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond, page 157:
- j or haček (čiriklo) over following vowel
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:čiriklo.
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