Ⱬ (
minuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...
: ⱬ,
Unicode codepoints U+2C6B and U+2C6C, respectively) is a
Latin letter
Z with a descender.
It is used in
pre-1983 romanization of the
Uyghur language
The Uyghur or Uighur language (; , , , or , , , , CTA: Uyğurçä; formerly known as Eastern Turki), is a Turkic language written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script with 8-11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xin ...
, transliterating
Ú˜ , 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
Latin alphabet for the
Dungan language
Dungan ( or ) is a Sinitic language spoken primarily in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan by the Dungan people, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China. Although it is derived from the Central Plains Mandarin of Gansu and Shaanxi, it is w ...
to represent the
voiceless retroflex affricate (tʂ) or the
voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate (tɕ).
References
Letters with descender (diacritic)
Latin-script letters
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