Db ligature explained

Phonemes:pronounced as /link/
Letter:ȸ
Type:alphabet
Script:Latin script
Typedesc:ic

The db ligature, ȸ, is a typographic ligature of Latin d and b, and used in Africanist linguistics for the transcription of certain African languages to represent pronounced as /link/, for example in the Zulu sequence pronounced as /[ɱȸv]/. ȸ was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, as U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER DB DIGRAPH., only a handful of fonts can display the character. These include Charis SIL, Code2000, Comic Sans, Doulos SIL, Ubuntu, and DejaVu fonts.

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References

. Pullum . Geoffrey K. . Geoffrey K. Pullum . Ladusaw . William A. . 1996 . . University of Chicago Press . 159.

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