Talk:Ɓ

Story of Ɓ?
What is the history of this character (lower & upper case)? The question arises because the 1928/30 Africa Alphabet used a Ƃ for the uppercase rather than the Ɓ. Was the latter introduced later? See the Zulu sample text at the end of the document at http://www.bisharat.net/Documents/poal30.htm --A12n 16:05, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It has been suggested elsewhere that John Philips' book on the history of Hausa orthography, Spurious Arabic, might have more information on this.--A12n 19:37, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Revisions & reorganization
I've made some revisions and reorganization of the info in this stub. Hopefully it is a little more clear and accurate. Of particular note:
 * I have the very strong impression that the Cyrillic-style capital form is not in active use, at least not anywhere in West Africa (the Loma example being an exception, perhaps influenced by the old IIALC publication). Presenting it as an "alternative" may be misleading, but I used that and "obsolete" in a new heading.
 * The intro is reworded to make the connection with IPA clearer. (I also did some work on the IPA article, which for its part had an insufficient mention of use in orthographies - a gap there that needs a little more attention.) --A12n 19:35, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

What is the name of this letter: Ɓ?
Without knowing the name of this letter, it's impossible to read the article aloud. DBlomgren (talk) 16:28, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, its Unicode name is LATIN {CAPITAL|SMALL} LETTER B WITH HOOK. —Tamfang (talk) 17:24, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * B-hook, B with hook or ɓe (if you can pronounce it). --Moyogo/ (talk) 19:54, 15 January 2013 (UTC)