U+01AA "ƪ" Latin Letter Reversed Esh Loop Unicode Character

U+01AA "ƪ" Latin Letter Reversed Esh Loop is a typographic symbol used primarily in historical and phonetic transcription contexts, particularly in the International Phonetic Alphabet for representing a voiced palatal or velar fricative in certain African languages. Its form resembles a reversed lowercase "esh" (ʃ) with an added loop, and it appears in older linguistic texts and orthographies, though it is now largely obsolete in modern standard IPA usage. This character is encoded in the Latin Extended-B block of Unicode, serving as a niche but important remnant of early efforts to systematically document diverse speech sounds.