[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by 1v4n0

Thank you everyone. I checked again and it's probably not an error. See attachment for more context.

Thanks for that whole paragraph. Surrounding context really helps.

Originally Posted by PeterT

See https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/barsom-av

barəsman

Yep! That's it!

They may have copied/pasted it from somewhere else, and the "upside-down 'e'" character got botched.

The Unicode character is:

• ə = U+0259 = LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA

Originally Posted by Jellby

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barsom (and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avestan_phonology for the difference between e and ə, my guess)

Thanks for those links. Very interesting stuff.

Side Note: If you're learning about language in that area of the world, you may be interested in this podcast episode:

• Lexicon Valley: "What Do They Speak in Afghanistan?"