__FORCETOC__ Latin Extended-F is a Unicode block containing modifier letters, nearly all IPA and extIPA, for phonetic transcription. The Latin Extended-F and -G blocks contain the first Latin characters defined outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). They were added to the free Gentium and Andika fonts with version 6.2 in February 2023. Some computers have 𐞃, 𐞎 and 𐞥 supported on the font Calibri.
In 2020, the International Phonetic Association endorsed the encoding of superscript IPA letters in a proposal to the Unicode Commission for broader coverage of the IPA alphabet. The proposal covered all segmental IPA letters that were not yet supported, including the implicit retroflex letters , as well as the two length marks and old-style affricate ligatures.Kirk Miller & Michael Ashby, L2/20-252R Unicode request for IPA modifier-letters (a), pulmonicKirk Miller & Michael Ashby, L2/20-253R Unicode request for IPA modifier letters (b), non-pulmonic.Kirk Miller & Michael Ashby, L2/21-040 Addendum to Unicode requests for IPA modifier letters, L2/20-252 pulmonic and L2/20-253 non-pulmonic A separate request by the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association for an expansion of extIPA coverage endorsed superscript variants of all extIPA fricative letters, specifically for the fricative release of consonants.Kirk Miller & Martin Ball, L2/20-116R Expansion of the extIPA and VoQS.
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U+10786 and U+107B1 were proposed for superscript ꞵ and ꭓ (that is, for Latin variants of and ) but were not assigned, with the points left reserved.Michael Everson and Kirk Miller, Consolidated code chart including proposed phonetic and medieval characters, 2020-01-03Deborah Anderson, Manish Goregaokar, Jan Kučera, Ken Whistler, Roozbeh Pournader, and Peter Constable, Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals, 2024-04-18
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Latin Extended-F block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 14.0 U+10780, 10790, 10799..1079F, 107A1 10 N5148R U+10781..10784, 10787..1078B, 1078E..1078F, 10791..10792, 10795..10797, 107A0, 107A2..107B0, 107B2..107B4 35 N5148R U+10785, 1078C..1078D, 10793..10794, 10798, 107B5..107B9 11 N5148R U+107BA 1 18.0 U+107BB..107BF 5
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