Ɓ


Ɓ, called B-hook or B with hook, is a letter of the Latin alphabet and the International African Alphabet. Its lower-case form, ⟨'⟩', represents a voiced [bilabial implosive] in the International [Phonetic Alphabet]. It is used to spell that sound in various languages, notably Fula, Hausa, and Giziga. It was also formerly used in, or at least proposed for, Xhosa and Zulu.
In Unicode, the upper case Ɓ is in the Latin Extended B range, and the lower case ɓ is in the IPA range. In Shona, the upper case form is a just a larger form of the lower case letter.

Alternative or obsolete capital form

The Practical Orthography for African Languages used a different capital form, similar to the Cyrillic letter be. A New Testament in the Loma language of Liberia, which was typeset in 1971, used this capital form.

Encoding

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