What ꕤ means
It writes the Vai syllable transcribed as za.
Vai is spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Its script developed in Liberia in the early 1830s; Mọmọlu Duwalu Bukẹlẹ is chiefly credited. A report from 1834 and a mid-1840s manuscript document early use. The script served correspondence, records and teaching. Its syllable-based design influenced Mende, Loma and Kpelle, perhaps Bamum. A Cherokee connection remains debated; a 1962 conference sought a standard.
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Who writes ꕤ
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsOne syllable in the spelling.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꕤ 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 ꕤ
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- Vai script · za character · Vai keyboard · Vai font
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꕤ\A564Codes and encoding1 code points
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