U+2980, ⦀
TRIPLE VERTICAL BAR DELIMITER
⥿
[U+297F]
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
[U+2981]

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

  1. (mathematics) Delimits a norm or a norm-like function, distinguished from a norm denoted by ‖·‖.
  2. (linguistics, rare) the triple pipe, a transcription for a second lateral click distinct from [ǁ].[1] The character U+2980 is recommended for this use by Unicode and is supported by SIL fonts (e.g. proper placement of IPA diacritics).

Usage notes edit

The six basic ⦀-clicks are:

Velar Uvular
Voiceless ⦀̥ k͜⦀ q͜⦀
Voiced ⦀̬ ɡ͜⦀ ɢ͜⦀
Nasal ⦀̬̃ ŋ͜⦀ ɴ͜⦀

or:

Velar Uvular
Voiceless ᵏ⦀ 𐞥⦀
Voiced ᶢ⦀ 𐞒⦀
Nasal ᵑ⦀ ᶰ⦀

References edit

  1. ^ * Essing 1964 "Die Urbevölkerung des südlischen Afrika." Neues Afrika 6(7): 238–239.
    * Miller-Ockhuizen & Sands 2000 "Contrastive lateral clicks and variation in click types." Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), Beijing, China, October 16–20.