Rha (Ԗ ԗ; italics:
''Ԗ ԗ'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
. It looks like a cross-digraph of the Cyrillic letters
Er (Р р) and
Kha (Х х), but it is not a
composable ligature.
Rha was used in the alphabet used in the 1920s for the
Moksha language
Moksha (, ) is a Mordvinic languages, Mordvinic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic family, spoken by Mokshas, with around 130,000 native speakers in 2010.
Moksha is the majority language in the western part of Mordovia.
Its closest relativ ...
, where it represented the
voiceless alveolar trill
The voiceless alveolar trill differs from the voiced alveolar trill only by the vibrations of the vocal cord. It occurs in a few languages, usually alongside the voiced version, as a similar phoneme or an allophone.
Proto-Indo-European develo ...
, like the rh in
Welsh.
See also
*Р̌ р̌ :
Cyrillic letter Er with caron
*Ҏ ҏ :
Cyrillic letter Er with tick
*
Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A64 ...
References
Cyrillic letters
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