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 languages of Africa are divided into several major language families: * Niger–Congo or perhaps Atlantic–Congo languages (includes Bantu and non-Bantu, and possibly Mande and others) are spoken in West, Central, Southeast and Southern A ...

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

orthography An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. Most transnational languages in the modern period have a writing system, and mos ...

Shona Shona often refers to: * Shona people, a Southern African people * Shona language, a Bantu language spoken by Shona people today Shona may also refer to: * ''Shona'' (album), 1994 album by New Zealand singer Shona Laing * Shona (given name) * S ...

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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