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Z with swash tail
Ɀ
is a
Latin letter
z
with a "swash tail" was used as a
phonetic symbol
by
linguists
studying
African languages
to
represent
a
voiced labio-alveolar fricative
.
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.