Tag: Heng

Heng is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from h combined with something similar to eng.
It was used word-finally in early transcriptions of Mayan languages, where it may have represented a uvular fricative.
It is sometimes used to write Judeo-Tat.
It has been occasionally used by phonologists to represent a hypothetical phoneme in English, which includes both [h] and [ŋ] as its allophones. Normally /h/ and /ŋ/ are considered separate phonemes in English.
Both U+A726 Ꜧ latin capital letter heng (HTML: Ꜧ) and U+A727 ꜧ latin small letter heng (HTML: ꜧ) are encoded in Unicode block Latin Extended-D.
A variant form, U+0267 ɧ latin small letter heng with hook (HTML: ɧ), is encoded as part of the IPA Extensions block. It is used to represent the voiceless palatal-velar fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

SKMM reviewing ‘Potong’ ad

The controversial P1 WiMAX broadband advertisement which repeatedly stressed the word “potong” (cut) is being reviewed by the Malaysian Communications…