Editing Yogh (section)

== Pronunciation ==
[[File:Yogh.svg|class=skin-invert-image|thumb|upright=0.5|Capital yogh (left), lowercase yogh (right)]]
In Modern English ''yogh'' is pronounced {{IPAc-en|j|ɒ|ɡ}}, {{IPAc-en|j|ɒ|x}} using [[Vowel length#"Long" and "short" vowel letters in spelling and the classroom teaching of reading|short]] o<ref name = "OED">{{OED|yogh}}</ref> or {{IPAc-en|j|oʊ|ɡ}}, {{IPAc-en|j|oʊ|k}}, {{IPAc-en|j|oʊ|x}}, using long o.<ref>{{Citation | title = Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary | edition = 10th}}.</ref>

It stood for {{IPAc-en|ɡ}} and its various allophones—including {{IPA |[ɡ]}} and the [[voiced velar fricative]] {{IPA|[ɣ]}}—as well as the phoneme {{IPAc-en|j}} ({{angle bracket|y}} in modern [[English orthography]]). In [[Middle English]], it also stood for the phoneme {{IPA|/x/}} and its allophone [ç] as in {{angle bracket|{{lang|ang|niȝt}}}} ("night", in an early Middle English way still often pronounced as spelled so: {{IPA |[niçt]}}), and also represented the phonemes /j/ and /dʒ/. Sometimes, yogh stood for {{IPA|/j/}} or {{IPA|/w/}}, as in the word {{angle bracket|{{lang|ang|ȝoȝelinge}}}} {{IPA |[ˈjowəlɪŋɡə]}}, "yowling".

In [[Middle Scots]], it represented the sound {{IPA|/j/}} in the clusters {{IPA|/lj/}}, {{IPA|/ŋj/}} and {{IPA|/nj/}} written ''l{{lang |ang|ȝ}}'' and ''n{{lang|ang|ȝ}}''.<ref name = "DOST">{{Citation | publisher = DSL | place = UK | url = http://www.dsl.ac.uk/SCOTSHIST/output4.php?file=NEW-Final6phonology.htm | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121223025948/http://www.dsl.ac.uk/SCOTSHIST/output4.php?file=NEW-Final6phonology.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = December 23, 2012 | title = DOST: A History of Scots to 1700 }}.</ref> Yogh was generally used for {{IPA|/j/}} rather than ''y''.

In medieval [[Cornish language|Cornish]] manuscripts, yogh was used to represent the [[voiced dental fricative]] {{IPA |[ð]}}, as in its {{angle bracket|{{lang|ang|ȝoȝo}}}}, now written {{angle bracket|dhodho}}, pronounced {{IPA|[ðoðo]}}.