Ⱬ ( minuscule: ⱬ,

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codepoints U+2C6B and U+2C6C, respectively) is a

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letter Z with a descender. It is used in pre-1983 romanization of the

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, transliterating ژ , a pre-consonantal allophone of ج (see Qona Yëziq), but occurring independently in a few words of Russian, Persian or Western origin (such as ''ⱬurnal'' from ''journal''). It corresponds to the digraph ''zh'' in the current ULY standard. Also, Z with descender was used in 1932—1936 Latin orthography for the Komi language. It represented a voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant � It is also used in the former

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for the Dungan language to represent the voiceless retroflex affricate (tʂ) or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate (tɕ).

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Letters with descender (diacritic) Latin-script letters {{Latin-script-stub