What ꬬ means
It marks one syllable.
Its series was included so existing Gumuz spellings and books could be written in Ethiopic.
Where does ꬬ come from?
The script has a much older history than this sign.
South Arabian script, an older writing system from across the Red Sea, is attested in Ethiopia in the pre-Aksumite period, before the kingdom of Aksum. Ethiopic later became a syllabic script used across languages. ꬬ is a later Gumuz addition for existing spellings and books; this older history belongs to the wider script, not this sign's first appearance.
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Who writes ꬬ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꬬ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ꬬ
- Search it as
- Gumuz · Gumuz script · Ethiopic Gumuz
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꬬ\AB2CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.