Talk:Ɯ

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I removed the bold from ɯ and Ɯ, because they do not render properly in some browsers. -- horse   dreamer  20:34, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Letter of the Latin alphabet?
"Ɯ (minuscule: ɯ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, ...." No it isn't. It may originate as a funny way of writing "W" for purposes of expanding the character set available for purposes like IPA, but it isn't itself a distinct letter of the Latin alphabet. Largoplazo (talk) 21:36, 24 May 2016 (UTC)


 * No, you're wrong. It certainly is not part of the alphabet of the Latin language, but it is a letter of the extended Latin script, much like Þ (and like W originally). Just because it is no longer in active use in a current Latin-script orthography nor has it been used as part of the orthography of a language relatively known in the Western world (the way Þ is used in current Icelandic orthography and was used historically in Old English), does not make it any less valid as a Latin-script letter. And no, it is not just an IPA character nor “a funny way of writing W”; it is a full-fledged Latin-script letter, with its own distinct identity and its own lowercase and uppercase forms and its own Unicode points, that was used and considered a perfectly normal letter in the Latin-script alphabet of the Zhuang language for decades. 92.178.80.48 (talk) 22:07, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 * You're conflating "letter added to an alphabet that was mostly the Latin alphabet" with "part of the Latin alphabet". Largoplazo (talk) 23:12, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Having just published that remark, it occurred to me that maybe one could say the same about J and W. Hmmm. Largoplazo (talk) 23:14, 11 May 2022 (UTC)