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{{Short description|Variant of the Latin letter D used in African alphabets}}
{{For|a list of letters that look similar to '''Ɖ''' in uppercase|D with stroke (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Latin letter D with retroflex hook.svg|thumb|African D]]

'''African D''' (Ɖ, ɖ) is a [[Latin script|Latin letter]] representing the [[voiced retroflex plosive]] {{IPA|[ɖ]}}. It is a part of the [[African reference alphabet]]. It is mainly used by [[African languages]] such as [[Ewe language|Ewe]],<ref name="Omniglot" /> [[Fon language|Fon]], [[Aja language (Niger-Congo)|Aja]], and [[Bassa language|Bassa]]. The African D should not be confused with either the [[eth]] (Ð, ð) of [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[Faroese language|Faroese]] and [[Old English]] or with the [[D with stroke]] (Đ, đ) of [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]], [[Serbo-Croatian]] and [[Sami languages]]. However, the upper-case forms of these letters tend to look the same.

The [[Letter case|lower-case]] variant (ɖ, known as '''retroflex D''', ''D with tail'', or ''D with retroflex hook'') is used to represent the [[voiced retroflex plosive]] in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] (but in the [[Transcription (linguistics)|transcription]] of the [[languages of India]], the same sound may be represented by a [[d with dot below]]: ḍ).

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Retroflex D on computers
|-
!style="background: #E8E8E8"|Sample
!style="background: #E8E8E8"|[[Unicode]]
!style="background: #E8E8E8"|Name
!style="background: #E8E8E8"|[[Numeric character reference|HTML reference]]
|-
|colspan="5" style="text-align: center; background: #F0F0F0"|''Latin Extended-B''<ref name="Unicode Latin B" />
|-
|style="text-align: center; font-size: large;"|Ɖ
|U+0189
|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AFRICAN D
|&amp;#393; <br/> &amp;#x189;
|-
|colspan="5" style="text-align: center; background: #F0F0F0"|''IPA Extensions''<ref name="Unicode IPA" />
|-
|style="text-align: center; font-size: large;"|ɖ
|U+0256
|LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH TAIL (retroflex hook)
|&amp;#598; <br/> &amp;#x256;
|-
|}

== See also ==

* [[Ɗ]]

== References ==

{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Omniglot">''Omniglot'': [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ewe.htm Ewe (Eʋegbe)] (1998–). Retrieved 21 January 2012.</ref>

<ref name="Unicode IPA">''The Unicode Standard'': [http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0250.pdf IPA Extensions] (1991–2010). Retrieved 21 January 2012.</ref>

<ref name="Unicode Latin B">''The Unicode Standard'': [http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf Latin Extended-B] (1991–2010). Retrieved 21 January 2012.</ref>

}}

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