čiriklo

Pronunciation

• IPA: /t͡ʃiriklo/

Origin

From the Romani čiriklo ("bird”, “sparrow”; “háček"); compare ̼ ("seagull").

Noun

noun

1. (rare, only in reference to the diacritic’s use in Romani) A háček (marking palatalization when written atop a consonant, iotation when written atop a vowel).
• 1990, Roma XXXIII–XXXIV,

• Preyotization is indicated by means of the “čiriklo” ˇ.
• 1995, Yaron Matras (editor), Romani in Contact,

• Palatalisation of d, l, n, t is marked only by a čiriklo (ˇ) (term coined by M. Courtiade).
• 1997, Victor Friedman, “Linguistic form and content in the Romani-language press of the Republic of Macedonia” in The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, eds. , Peter Bakker, and ,

• RS follows standard East European practice of using the wedge (haček, čiriklo) to indicate the strident palatals (Å¡, ž, č, dž).
• 2003, Victor Friedman, Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond,

• j or haček (čiriklo) over following vowel