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 [language (disambiguation)|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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