Turned P

Turned P
P p
Usage
Typealphabetic
Language of originSiouan languages, Anthropos phonetic alphabet
Sound values[pː], [ʰp]
History
Development
P p
  • P p
Time period19th century, 1907 onwards
Other
Writing directionleft-to-right

Turned P (P p) is an additional letter of the Latin script which was used in the orthographies of certain Siouan languages, mostly by James Owen Dorsey in the 19th century. Its lowercase form is used in the Anthropos alphabet, the phonetic alphabet of the journal Anthropos.

This letter has the form of a P and p turned 180 degrees.