Ꞩ
| S with oblique stroke | |
|---|---|
| Ꞩ ꞩ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Latvian orthography until 1921; Lower Sorbian until 1950; Luiseño and Cupeño languages, Unified Northern Alphabet. |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Other | |
Ꞩ, ꞩ, ẜ (S with oblique stroke) is an extended Latin letter that was used in Latvian orthography until 1921; ꞩ was also used in Lower Sorbian until 1950.[1] A variant of the letter S with a stroke, encoded at U+A7CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE and U+A7CD LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE, is used in Luiseño[2] and Cupeño,[3] and has been encoded since Unicode 16.0.
Uses in alphabets
[edit]In Latvian orthography until 1921 it meant the sound IPA: [s] (while the S s meant the sound IPA: [z]). It was also used in the trigraph Ꞩch ẜch and the tetragraph Tẜch tẜch, denoted by the sounds IPA: [ʃ] and IPA: [t͡ʃ], respectively. Spelling reform Ꞩ ẜ ꞩ, Ꞩch ẜch, Tẜch tẜch were replaced by S s, Š š, Č č respectively.[4]
In the final version of the Unified Northern Alphabet, created in the USSR in the 1930s for the languages of the peoples of Siberia and the Far North, for the Selkup, Khanty and Mansi languages, it meant the sound IPA: [ʃ].[5]
Code positions
[edit]The forms are represented in Unicode as:
- U+A7A8 Ꞩ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH OBLIQUE STROKE
- U+A7A9 ꞩ LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH OBLIQUE STROKE
The long s form with the bar (diacritic) is encoded at:
- U+1E9C ẜ LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
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Latvian alphabet before 1921 (upper) -
Unified northern alphabet -
Sami alphabet. 1933 version
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Latin Extended-D
- ^ Chris Harvey/Languagegeek. 2004. Luiseño S with Stroke, <languagegeek.com>
- ^ Jane H. Hill. 2005. A Grammar of Cupeño, University of California Press.
- ^ Plaķis, Juris (1921). "Rīkojums par ortogrāfijas reformu". Izglītības Ministrijas Mēnešraksts (in Latvian). 2: 218. Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ^ Материалы I всероссийской конференции по развитию языков и письменности народов Севера (3000 экз ed.). М.-Л.: Учпедгиз. 1932.
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