See
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/barsom-avbarəsman
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See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barsom (and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avestan_phonology for the difference between e and ə, my guess)
Quote 1v4n0
Thank you everyone. I checked again and it's probably not an error. See attachment for more context.
Thanks for that whole paragraph. Surrounding context really helps.
Quote PeterT
Yep! That's it!
They may have copied/pasted it from somewhere else, and the "upside-down 'e'" character got botched.
The Unicode character is:
- ə = U+0259 = LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
Quote Jellby
Thanks for those links. Very interesting stuff.
Side Note: If you're learning about language in that area of the world, you may be interested in this podcast episode:
Quote Tex2002ans
They may have copied/pasted it from somewhere else, and the "upside-down 'e'" character got botched.
They most likely used
ᵊ (U+1D4A) MODIFIER LETTER SMALL SCHWA:
barᵊsmanQuote Doitsu
They most likely used ᵊ (U+1D4A) MODIFIER LETTER SMALL SCHWA: barᵊsman
Yep, you've convinced me. This is the character.
Some fonts also have a different-looking 'ᵊ' that looks like a partial differential, especially when they're in italic:
Quote Tex2002ans
Thanks for that whole paragraph. Surrounding context really helps.
Yep! That's it!
They may have copied/pasted it from somewhere else, and the "upside-down 'e'" character got botched.
Isn't it as likely an OCR error?
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The Unicode character is:
- ə = U+0259 = LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
