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Some Greek characters used as phonetic symbols have a distinct ‘Latin’ shape. Most of them now have a Unicode code point of their own, but not all. Therefore, the current version of the Brill fonts (4.00) has the alternate glyph shapes still at their Greek code points but accessible through the OpenType Stylistic Set 20. These are θ and λ. Note that there are also other Latin-shaped Greek characters, among which are β and χ, which have code points of their own (ꞵ and ꭓ).
Because of the subtlety of differences in appearance of these characters it is important to check (or spot-check) these characters by code point. The easiest way to do this in MS Office (Windows) is to copy the character whose Unicode value you wish to know from its source and paste it into a Word document. Once pasted, with the insertion point positioned just after the character in question, type Alt X, which converts the character to its Unicode hexadecimal value (typing Alt X again will toggle this back to the character).
Latin twins in the Brill typeface
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| Character | Code point | Name | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| ɑ | U+0251 | Latin alpha or ‘script a’ | There is a capital, Ɑ, U+2C6D, but this forms part of several Cameroon language orthographies, and it is not ordinarily used occurs but rarely in strictly linguistic contexts. Note also the existence of ᵅ U+1D45, ɒ U+0252, ᶛ U+1D9B, ꭤ U+AB64, and ꬰ U+AB30. |
| ꞵ | U+A7B5 | Latin beta | There is a capital, Ꞵ, U+A7B4, but this forms part of Gabonese orthographies, and it is not ordinarily used occurs but rarely in strictly linguistic contexts. Note the availability of the Latin glyph shape of Greek beta U+03B2 in the pre-version-4 Brill fonts through application of OpenType ss20. |
| ɣ | U+0263 | Latin gamma | There is a capital, Ɣ, U+0194, but this forms part of some African orthographies, and it is not ordinarily used occurs but rarely in strictly linguistic contexts. Note also the existence of ˠ U+02E0 Superscript Latin gamma, and ɤ U+0264 ‘Baby gamma’ or ‘ram’s horns’. |
| ẟ | U+1E9F | Latin delta or ‘script d’ or ‘insular d’ | Note also the existence of ƍ U+018D turned delta. |
| ɛ | U+025B | Latin epsilon or ‘open e’ | There is a capital, Ɛ, U+0190, but this forms part of some African (Niger-Congo) orthographies, and it is not ordinarily used in strictly linguistic contexts. Note also the existence of ᶓ U+1D93, ɜ U+025C, ᶔ U+1D94, ɝ U+025D, ᶟ U+1D9F, ɞ U+025E, ʚ U+029A, ᴈ U+1D08, ᵋ U+1D4B, and ᵌ U+1D4C. |
| U+03B8 | Latin theta | This character has not yet been encoded in Unicode. The Latin glyph shape of Greek theta U+03B8 in the Brill fonts is accessible by application of OpenType ss20. |
| ɩ | U+0269 | Latin iota | There is a capital, Ɩ, U+0196, but this forms part of some African (Niger-Congo) orthographies, and it is not ordinarily used in strictly linguistic contexts. Note also the existence of ᶥ U+1DA5 and ᵼ U+1D7C. Do not confuse with ꙇ Cyrillic iota U+A647. |
 | U+03BB | Latin lambda | This character has not yet been encoded in Unicode. The Latin glyph shape of Greek lambda U+03BB in the Brill fonts is accessible by application of OpenType ss20. Note also the existence of ƛ U+019B. |
| ʊ | U+028A | Latin upsilon | There is a capital, Ʊ U+01B1, but this forms part of some African (Niger-Congo) orthographies, and it is not ordinarily used in strictly linguistic contexts. Note also the existence of ᵿ U+1D7F and ᶷ U+1DB7. |
| ɸ | U+0278 | Latin phi | Note also the existence of ᶲ U+1DB2 and ⱷ U+2C77. |
| ꭓ | U+AB53 | Latin khi | Note the availability of the Latin glyph shape of Greek khi U+03C7 in the pre-version-4 Brill fonts through application of OpenType ss20. There is a capital, Ꭓ, U+A7B3, but this is only used in German dialectology. Note also the existence of ꭔ U+AB54 and ꭕ U+AB55. |
| ꞷ | U+A7B7 | Latin omega | There is a capital, Ꞷ, U+A7B6. Both are used in African orthographies. Note also the existence of ɷ U+0277 and ꭥ U+AB65. |
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