U+0296 "ʖ" Latin Letter Inverted Glottal Stop Unicode Character

U+0296 "ʖ" Latin Letter Inverted Glottal Stop is a typographic symbol used primarily in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent a voiced lateral velar click, a sound found in some languages of southern Africa, such as Zulu and Xhosa. This character visually resembles an upside-down glottal stop, and it is distinct from the standard glottal stop symbol, serving to indicate a click sound produced by releasing air from the side of the mouth rather than from the front. While it is seldom encountered in everyday text, it remains an essential component for linguists and phoneticians when transcribing specific click consonants in detailed phonetic notation.