gelded question mark

plural gelded question marks

1. The glottal stop symbol, ʔ

   ogonek, gelded question mark, caron

   2017, Esteban, Avelino Corral, “Chapter 9 - Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages”, in Mari C. Jones and Damien Mooney, editor, Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 170

   1 more example

   [...] for example, the symbol denoting the glottal stop, ⟨ʔ⟩, has the form of a "gelded" question mark, and was originally an apostrophe.

   2008, Thanyarat Prutpapop, A prototype of speech recognition system for Thai language with speaker independence, Mahidol University, page 8

   Synonyms: glottal stop