U+01BA "ƺ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Tail Unicode Character

U+01BA "ƺ" Latin Small Letter Ezh with Tail is a typographic variant of the standard ezh or yogh character, primarily used in phonetic transcription and some orthographies. Its distinct feature is a tail that descends below the baseline, often indicating a retroflex or other specialized articulation in the International Phonetic Alphabet, where it represents a voiced postalveolar fricative. This character is also employed in certain African languages and Romanizations of non-Latin scripts, serving as a diacritic-modified glyph to denote a sound distinct from its tail-less counterpart. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation for linguists and language preservation projects.