S with swash tail

Latin letter formerly used in African linguistics and Shona

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) that was used as a phonetic symbol by linguists studying African languages to represent the sound [sʷ].^[1]^[2]

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

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.

Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter S with diacritics
Śś	Ṥṥ	Ŝŝ	Šš	Ṧṧ	S̈s̈	Ṡṡ	Şş	Ṣṣ	Ṩṩ	Șș	S̩s̩	Ꞩꞩ	Ꟊꟊ	Ȿȿ	Ʂʂ	ᶊ	ᵴ	𝼞	𝼩
Letters using hook or tail ( ◌̡, ◌̢ )
ᶏ	Ɓɓ	Ꞗꞗ	ᶀ	Ƈƈ	ɕ	𝼏	𝼝	Ꞔꞔ	Ɗɗ	ȡ	ᶁ	ᶑ	𝼥	ᶒ	ⱸ	ꬴ	Ƒƒ	ᶂ	Ɠɠ	ᶃ	ꬶ	Ɦɦ	Ꜧꜧ	ꞕ
ʮ	ᶖ	Ʝʝ	Ƙƙ	ᶄ	ȴ	ɭ	ᶅ	𝼑	𝼦	Ɱɱ	ᶆ	ꬺ	Ɲɲ	ȵ	ɳ	ᶇ	𝼔	𝼧	ꬻ	ꬼ	Ꝍꝍ	𝼛	Ƥƥ	Ꝓꝓ	Ꝕꝕ
ᶈ	ʠ	Ɽɽ	ᶉ	𝼨	ꭉ	𝼞	𝼩	Ȿȿ	Ʂʂ	ᶊ	Ƭƭ	Ʈʈ	ȶ	𝼪	ᶙ	ꭒ	Ʋʋ	ᶌ	ⱱ	ⱴ	Ⱳⱳ	ᶍ	Ƴƴ	Ỿỿ	Ȥȥ
Ɀɀ	ʐ	ʑ	Ᶎᶎ