Abkhazian_Che

Abkhazian Che

Abkhazian Che

Cyrillic letter


Abkhazian Che ҽ; italics: Ҽ ҽ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[1]

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Abkhazian Che is used in the alphabet of the Abkhaz language, where it represents the voiceless retroflex affricate /ʈʂ/. In the alphabet, it is placed between Ҷ and Ҿ.

Resemblance

The letter only coincidentally resembles a lowercase Latin letter 'e'. Historically, it's the cursive form of the corresponding letter ( ) in the Abkhazian Latin alphabet, where it somewhat resembled a Greek φ.

Cche

An alternative form of Abkhazian che, termed cche by Unicode.

Cche or Double Che (Ꚇ ꚇ; italics:  ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.[2] It was used in the old Abkhaz alphabets, where it represents the voiceless retroflex affricate /ʈ͡ʂ/. The letter was invented by baron Peter von Uslar. In 1862 he published his linguistic study "Абхазский язык".[3] The letter is Ҽ-shaped but in 1887 Uslar's study was reprinted by M. Zavadskiy who changed its shape and the result resembled a Cyrillic Ч doubled.[3] Later the letter returned to its initial form which, created by linguist Uslar, is part of the modern Abkhaz alphabet, which is depicted as Ҽ.

Computing codes

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See also


References

  1. "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
  2. "Cyrillic Extended-B: Range: A640–A69F" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. Unicode Inc. 2010. p. 998. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  3. "404 Not Found" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 15, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2023. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)

Further reading

  • Daniels, Peter D. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, 1996.



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