U+02A1 "ʡ" Latin Letter Glottal Stop with Stroke Unicode Character

U+02A1 "ʡ" Latin Letter Glottal Stop with Stroke is a phonetic symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced epiglottal stop or a pharyngeal stop, a sound produced by constricting the airway at the level of the epiglottis or pharynx. This character is primarily employed in linguistic transcription for certain languages, such as those found in the Caucasus region or in some indigenous languages of North America, where it distinguishes phonemic contrasts not captured by more common symbols. The stroke across the standard glottal stop letter modifies its meaning, aligning it with other IPA diacritic conventions to indicate a different place of articulation in the vocal tract.