čiriklo

See also: ćiriklo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani ćiriklo (“bird, sparrow; háček”); compare  ̼ (seagull).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiɹiklo/

Noun

čiriklo

1. (rare, only in reference to the diacritics use in Romani) A háček (marking palatalisation when written atop a consonant, iotation when written atop a vowel).
   • 1990, Roma‎^[1], Roma Publications, page 43:

     Preyotization is indicated by means of the “čiriklo” ˇ.

   • 1995, Yaron Matras, editor, Romani in Contact‎^[2], J. Benjamins, →ISBN, page 197, →ISBN:

     Palatalisation of d, l, n, t is marked only by a čiriklo (ˇ) (term coined by M. Courtiade).

   • 1997, Victor A. Friedman, “Linguistic form and content in the Romani-language press of the Republic of Macedonia”, in Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Hristo Kyuchukov, editors, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 185, →ISBN:

     RS follows standard East European practice of using the wedge (haček, čiriklo) to indicate the strident palatals (š, ž, č, dž).

   • 2003, Victor A. Friedman, Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond, page 157:

     j or haček (čiriklo) over following vowel

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:čiriklo.