What ꛰ means
It puts a glottal stop on a syllable's final vowel. It is written right after the letter it modifies and takes its whole reading from that letter.
King Njoya, ruler of the Bamum kingdom in what is now Cameroon, created the script; over 1896–1910 it shrank from pictographs into a syllabary, and koqndon arrived with the final 1910 'a ka u ku' revision for palace records and histories.
Why does ꛰ look wrong on its own?
It needs a base letter and a Bamum-aware font. Alone it floats on a dotted placeholder; without Bamum support it collapses into a box. In Word, type A6F0 then AltX to insert it.
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Who writes ꛰
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꛰ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Bamum block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ꛰
- Also called
- kɔˀndɔn
- Search it as
- toukwen · bamum diacritic · glottal stop · a6f0 · bamun
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
꛰\A6F0Codes and encoding1 code points
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