Ȿ (lowercase: ȿ) is a Latin letter s with a "swash tail" (encoded by

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, at codepoints U+2C7E for uppercase and U+023F for lowercase) that was used as a phonetic symbol by linguists studying

African languages The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000. Nigeria alone has over 500 languages (according to SI ...

to represent the sound .Proposal to encode two phonetic characters and two Shona characters
Lorna A. Priest, October 2, 2007. In 1931, it was adopted into the

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of Shona for a 'whistled' ''s'', but it was dropped in 1955 due to the lack of the character on

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s and

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s. Today the digraph sv is used.

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