Z with descender
Template:Short description Ⱬ (minuscule: ⱬ, Unicode codepoints U+2C6B and U+2C6C, respectively) is a Latin letter Z with a descender.
It is used in pre-1983 romanization of the Uyghur language, transliterating ژ Template:IPAblink, a pre-consonantal allophone of ج Script error: No such module "IPA". (see Qona Yëziq), but occurring independently in a few words of Russian, Persian or Western origin (such as ⱬurnal from journal). It corresponds to the digraph zh in the current ULY standard.
Also, Z with descender was used in Latin orthographies of the Abaza language, Adyghe language, Avar language, Dargwa language, Kabardian language, Lak language, Komi language, Laz language, Lezgian language, Nanai language, Selkup language, Tabasaran language, and Chechen language. It represented a voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant [ʑ]. It is also used in the former Latin alphabet for the Dungan languageScript error: No such module "Unsubst". to represent the voiceless retroflex affricate Script error: No such module "IPA". or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate Script error: No such module "IPA"..
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