LATIN SMALL LETTER SALTILLO

Codepoint
U+A78C
Literal Character
Name
LATIN SMALL LETTER SALTILLO
Sketch
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Control Character
no
Subblock
Orthographic letters for glottals
UTF-8 byte encoding
ea 9e 8c
UTF-16 byte encoding
a7 8c (big endian)
HTML Entity
ꞌ
Perl string literal
\x{A78C}
Comments
  • saltillos are used as a casing pair for glottal stop in some orthographies
  • the lowercase is widely used in many languages in Mexico and other regions, including Izere in Nigeria
See Also
U+0027: apostrophe
U+0242: latin small letter glottal stop
U+0294: latin letter glottal stop
U+02BC: modifier letter apostrophe
U+02C0: modifier letter glottal stop