S with swash tail
Appearance
Ȿ (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
- ^ Proposal to add two Africanist phonetic characters to the UCS, Michael Everson & Peter Constable, June 12 2004.
- ^ Proposal to encode two phonetic characters and two Shona characters, Lorna A. Priest, October 2 2007.