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Ɀ (lowercase: ɀ) is: a Latin letter z with a "swash tail" (encoded by, Unicode, at codepoints U+2C7F for uppercase and U+0240 for lowercase) was used as a phonetic symbol by linguists studying African languages——to represent a voiced labio-alveolar fricative ([zʷ]).

In 1931, it was adopted into the——orthography of Shona for a 'whistled' z, but it was dropped in 1955 due——to the lack of the character on typewriters and fonts. Today the digraph zv is used.

It is sometimes used to transcribe Toda's /d̪z̪/.

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• ȿ
• ƍ
• Ȥ "Z with hook"

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