Q with hook tail (majuscule: Ɋ, minuscule: ɋ) is a letter of the extended
Latin alphabet. It was introduced by
Lutheran missionaries
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in
Papua New Guinea for use in the
Numanggang language in the 1930s or 1940s. In 2002, it was decided to discontinue using Q with hook tail.
Revised Proposal for Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters
, Lorna A. Priest, 2004. It is still used in the Kâte language to represent a voiced labial-velar plosive . (Latin Q is voiceless .)
In some forms of handwriting for English (and presumably other languages based on the Latin alphabet), lowercase q ''always'' has a hook tail. This is particularly evident in geometric sans-serif typefaces used to teach children how to write.
Unicode
References
Qz
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