Ɽ, ɽ is a letter of the

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from � ...

, derived from R with the addition of a

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. Its capital form may be based on either the uppercase or lowercase R.

Unicode

The lowercase (ɽ) was added to Unicode since Unicode 1.0 while the uppercase (Ɽ) has only been added since Unicode 5.0. The uppercase and lowercase codepoints are U+2C64 and U+027D, respectively.

Usage

is used in the

International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation ...

to represent a

retroflex flap The voiced retroflex flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some Speech communication, spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a letter ''r'' with tail, and the equivalent X-SAMPA ...

. Ɽ is also used in the alphabets of several

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ese languages, including Heiban, Koalib, Moro and Otoro. It is placed after R in

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References

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