Talk:Hwair

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I may be mistaken, but the image on the bottom of this wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IPA_lezh.PNG) seems to be incorrect. Is lezh truly the same as hwair (or the IPA lezh the pronunciation of hwair)? it seems that they are two different ligatures, one of H,v and the other L,z ? should this be corrected or am i wrong?

The image on the bottom (lezh) does not belong to the article, it is part of the "language stub" notice. Hwair and Lezh are not in any way related. Jordi·✆ 12:05, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Ligature

Why is Hwair in the ligature category? Hwair is not a ligature, but a single letter. Ligatures arose from medieaval scripts, Hwair was invented to transcribe a Gothic letter. It is not the same as the Hw ligature. -- Jordi·✆ 08:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Ƕ is in fact an hv ligature. Ligatures are simply ligations of text. The word implies in no way a Medieval origin. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 01:25, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Unicode Latin template

Is this really necessary? It's about twice as long as the article body! — Gwalla | Talk 06:46, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Karl Wafer

Hwair is looks like h and u ligature not HV 86.9.107.79 (talk) 18:45, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

Gothic and Latin Hwair

Should this page be split into two pages, one for the Latin and one for the Gothic hwair? Although the Latin hwair can represent the same sound as the Gothic letter, it is visually distinct and has at least two descendants that I know of (the letter "nv", "nu", or "nwair", ⟨⟩, and the H-turned-H ligature, ⟨⟩, both of which were used in phonetic transcription systems). 𝕷𝖚𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖚𝖕𝖎𝖞𝖊☾𝕿☽⚸ 00:55, 8 May 2026 (UTC)