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Ḍ (<a href="/facts/Lower_case/KQcwaUUD">minuscule</a>: ḍ) is a letter of the <a href="/facts/Latin_alphabet/pqWVHpBz">Latin alphabet</a>, formed from <a href="/facts/D/A6hNvmCp">D</a> with the addition of a <a href="/facts/Dot_(diacritic)/Kcms1c5B">dot diacritic</a>.
In the <a href="/facts/Transcription_(linguistics)/tt1dQtlE">transcription</a> of <a href="/facts/Afro-Asiatic_languages/fzqjWd0q">Afro-Asiatic languages</a> such as <a href="/facts/Arabic_language/A1e66hVV">Arabic</a>, ⟨ḍ⟩ represents an "<a href="/facts/Emphatic_consonant/xCSeW8Kf">emphatic</a>" consonant [<a href="/facts/Pharyngealization/yesDa9qg">dˤ</a>], and is used for that purpose in the <a href="/facts/Berber_Latin_alphabet/KRvx9gcS">Berber Latin alphabet</a> and represents a voiced linguodental oclusive consonant.
In the transcription of <a href="/facts/Languages_of_India/6XDhJrTq">Indic</a> and <a href="/facts/Eastern_Iranian_languages/QSYlqs5T">East Iranian</a> languages, and in the <a href="/facts/Orthography/sJPhCpsU">orthography</a> of the <a href="/facts/O%27odham_language/ssdCK9wy">O'odham</a> and <a href="/facts/Sicilian_language/RQHklfV4">Sicilian</a> languages, ⟨ḍ⟩ represents a retroflex [<a href="/facts/Voiced_retroflex_plosive/SQT2LTNM">ɖ</a>]. This was used in a former transcription of <a href="/facts/Javanese_language/la4H713D">Javanese</a>, but has been replaced by ⟨<a href="/facts/Dh_(digraph)/9nbpVK98">dh</a>⟩.

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