N’Ko Letter Ha

ߤ is N’Ko’s ha letter, a consonant for the h sound in Manding words. Solomana Kanté devised N’Ko to mark Manding sounds, vowels, and tone more consistently than Arabic- and Latin-based spellings. It first appeared publicly on 14 April 1949. The same written form can be pronounced differently across Manding varieties.

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What ߤ means

It marks one consonant within the word.

N’Ko runs from right to left, so ߤ is one part of a word’s spelling, not a whole syllable.

In joined writing, ߤ can connect to its neighbors along the baseline. A noncursive font may leave it detached; that changes the display, not the letter.

By itself, ߤ is one consonant; it usually reads as a fragment or a mention of the letter.

Part of the collection

N'Ko Alphabet

Who writes ߤ

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Questions people ask

Why does ߤ 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.