Missing Latin superscript lowercase letters

[Daphne Preston-Kendal]

> Only  i n q  are missing as superscript modifiers. Wouldn’t it be sensible to fill that gap at last? 

In the pronunciation alphabet devised by James Murray for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, superscript i was used for the glide-off of the English diphthong written in the IPA as /eɪ/. https://archive.org/details/oed01arch/page/n21/mode/2up?view=theater
In the digital transcription of the first edition, the superscripting was done with markup tags (as was the distinction between italic and roman letters used in the Murray phonemic–phonetic transcription). Nonetheless given the significance of the OED and the otherwise comprehensive treatment of phonetic characters in Unicode, even non-/pre-IPA ones like this, I think there’s a strong case for encoding this.

Conceivably superscript n might be used in the IPA to denote a nasal consonant with ‘alveolarization’. The fact it isn’t encoded yet makes me think this is rare to nonexistent.

The corresponding process for superscript q would be uvularization, but I don’t know that using the symbol for the uvular plosive would ever be applicable here.


Daphne