S with oblique stroke - different strokes

Ꞩ, ꞩ, ẜ (''S with oblique stroke'') is an extended Latin letter that was used in

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until 1921; ꞩ was also used in

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until 1950. A variant of the letter S with a stroke is also used in Luiseño and

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Uses in alphabets

In Latvian orthography until 1921 it meant the sound (while the S s meant the sound ). It was also used in the trigraph ''Ꞩch ẜch'' and the

tetragraph A tetragraph (from the el, τετρα-, ''tetra-'', "four" and γράφω, ''gráphō'', "write") is a sequence of four letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not necessarily correspond to the indi ...

''Tẜch tẜch'', denoted by the sounds and , respectively. Spelling reform ''Ꞩ ẜ ꞩ'', ''Ꞩch ẜch'', ''Tẜch tẜch'' were replaced by ''S s'', '' Š š'', '' Č č'' respectively. 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,

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and

Mansi Mansi may refer to: People * Mansi people, an indigenous people living in Tyumen Oblast, Russia ** Mansi language * Giovanni Domenico Mansi Gian (Giovanni) Domenico Mansi (16 February 1692 – 27 September 1769) was an Italian prelate, theolog ...

languages, it meant the sound .

Code positions

The forms are represented in Unicode as: * * The

long s The long s , also known as the medial s or initial s, is an archaic form of the lowercase letter . It replaced the single ''s'', or one or both of the letters ''s'' in a 'double ''s sequence (e.g., "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "po� ...

form with the

bar (diacritic) A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme. It may be used as a diacritic to derive new letters from old ones, or simply as an addition to make a grapheme more distinct from others. It can take the form of a v ...

is encoded at: * Das Buch der Schrift (Faulmann) 246.jpg, Latvian alphabet before 1921 (upper) Unified Northern Alphabet.jpg, Unified northern alphabet Sami alphabet 1933.jpg, Sami alphabet. 1933 version

References

Latin-script letters Latvian language {{Latin-script-stub