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(lowercase: ȿ) is a Latin letter s with a "swash tail" (encoded by Unicode, at codepoints U+2C7E for uppercase and U+023F for lowercase) was used as a phonetic symbol by linguists studying African languages to represent a voiceless labio-alveolar fricative (IPA: /sʷ/).[1][2]

Notes and references

  1. ^ Proposal to add two Africanist phonetic characters to the UCS, Michael Everson & Peter Constable, June 12 2004.
  2. ^ Proposal to encode two phonetic characters and two Shona characters, Lorna A. Priest, October 2 2007.

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