Ɓ
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Ɓ (lowercase: ɓ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. It is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to show a special sound.
What it sounds like
[change | change source]- ɓ makes a sound called a voiced bilabial implosive. This means you make the sound by closing your lips and then opening them while making a noise with your voice.
Where it is used
[change | change source]- ɓ is used in some African languages like Fula and Hausa. These languages use this letter to write words that have the special sound.
How it looks in writing
[change | change source]- Uppercase: Ɓ
- Lowercase: ɓ
Examples
[change | change source]- In the Fula language, the word “fulɓe” means a person from the Fulani people.
- In Hausa, the word “ɓaɓɛua” means quarreling.
Unicode
[change | change source]- The letter ɓ has special codes in computers:
- Uppercase Ɓ: U+0181
- Lowercase ɓ: U+0253