S with swash tail

{{Short description|Latin letter formerly used in African linguistics and Shona}}

File:Latin letter S with swash tail.svg

Ȿ (lowercase: ȿ) is a Latin letter s with a "swash tail" (encoded by Unicode, at codepoints U+2C7E for uppercase and U+023F for lowercase) that was used as a phonetic symbol by linguists studying African languages to represent the sound {{IPAblink|ʷ|sʷ}}.[http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2799.pdf Proposal to add two Africanist phonetic characters to the UCS], Michael Everson & Peter Constable, June 12, 2004.[http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/wg2/docs/n3447.pdf Proposal to encode two phonetic characters and two Shona characters], Lorna A. Priest, October 2, 2007.

In 1931, it was adopted into the orthography of Shona for a 'whistled' s, but it was dropped in 1955 due to the lack of the character on typewriters and fonts. Today the digraph sv is used.