Yogh - Pronunciation

Pronunciation

Yogh is pronounced either /ˈjɒɡ/, /ˈjɒx/, with a short o, or /ˈjoʊɡ/, /ˈjoʊk/, /ˈjoʊx/, with a long o. It stood for /ɡ/ and its various allophones—including and the voiced velar fricative —as well as the phoneme /j/ (⟨y⟩ in modern English spelling).

In Middle English, it also stood for the phoneme /x/ as in ⟨niȝt⟩ ("night", then pronounced as spelled: ). Sometimes, Yogh stood for /j/ or /w/, as in the word ⟨ȝoȝelinge⟩, "yowling".

In Middle Scots, it represented the sound /j/ in the clusters /lj/, /ŋj/ and /nj/ written and . Yogh was also used for /j/ rather than y.

In medieval Cornish manuscripts, yogh was used to represent the voiced interdental fricative, as in ⟨ȝoȝo⟩, now written ⟨dhodho⟩, pronounced .

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