Modifier letter apostrophe

Not to be confused with Apostrophe, ʻOkina, Right single quotation mark, or Modifier letter turned comma.

Modifier letter apostrophe
ʼ
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic, Latin, Devanagari
Typealphabetic
Language of originInternational Phonetic Alphabet, Nenets language, Kildin Sámi, Boro, Dogri
Sound values[ʔ], [ʰ]

The modifier letter apostrophe (ʼ) is a letter found in Unicode encoding, used primarily for various glottal sounds. It was used for the apostrophe in early Unicode versions.

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