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Ɓ (minuscule: ɓ), called "B-hook" or "B with a hook", is a letter of the Latin alphabet and the International African Alphabet. Its lower-case form, ɓ, 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 (U+0181), and the lower case ɓ is in the IPA range (U+0253). 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 (1930 ed.) used a different capital form, similar to the Cyrillic letter be (Б).^[1] A New Testament in the Loma language of Liberia, which was typeset in 1971, used this capital form.^[2]

Notes

^ Practical Orthography of African Languages, Revised Edition, London: Oxford University Press, 1930
^ Message posted to the "Qalam" list, Sept. 15, 2007

References

Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. University of Chicago Press. p. 23.
"Latin Extended B: Range 0180-024F" (Unicode code chart)
"IPA Extensions: Range 0250-02AF" (Unicode code chart)

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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 B with diacritics
Ḃḃ	Ḅḅ	Ḇḇ	Ƀƀ	Ɓɓ	Ꞗꞗ	ᵬ	ᶀ
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

Multigraphs

Digraphs	Ch Dz Dž Gh IJ Lj Ll Ly Nh Nj Ny Sh Sz Th
Trigraphs	dzs eau
Tetragraphs	ough
Pentagraphs	tzsch

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