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{{Short description|Latin letter formerly used in African linguistics and Shona}}
[[File:Latin letter S with swash tail.svg|thumb|Latin S with swash tail]]
'''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 transcription|phonetic symbol]] by linguists studying [[African languages]] to represent the sound {{IPAblink|ʷ|sʷ}}.<ref>[http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2799.pdf Proposal to add two Africanist phonetic characters to the UCS], Michael Everson & Peter Constable, June 12, 2004.</ref><ref>[http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/wg2/docs/n3447.pdf Proposal to encode two phonetic characters and two Shona characters], Lorna A. Priest, October 2, 2007.</ref>

In 1931, it was adopted into the [[orthography]] of [[Shona language|Shona]] for a 'whistled' ''s'', but it was dropped in 1955 due to the lack of the character on [[typewriter]]s and [[typeface|font]]s. Today the [[digraph (orthography)|digraph]] [[sv (digraph)|sv]] is used.

== Notes and references ==
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==See also==
*[[Z with swash tail|ɀ]]
*[[retroflex fricative|ʂ]]

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[[Category:Phonetic transcription symbols|S]]

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