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H with descender (Ⱨ ⱨ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from H with the addition of a small descender. It was used in Uyghur language, Uyghur to represent (~ English ''h''), while a regular ''H'' was used to represent (~ German language, German ''ch'' in ''ach''). This letter was in use from the early 1960s, when a Latin alphabet, the Uyghur New Script, was introduced for writing Uyghur to replace the Arabic script, until 1984–86 when the Latin alphabet was phased out and the official script was changed back to Arabic. The equivalent Arabic letter is ھ, while the Cyrillic equivalent is the shha (Һ һ). The capital letter is Homoglyph, homoglyphic to the Cyrillic, Cyrillic letter en with descender (Ң ң) used in various Turkic languages, including Uyghur itself in its own Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet. Its lowercase form is homoglyphic with the shha with descender used in the Tat language (Caucasus), Tati and Juhuri language, Juhuri languages. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shha With Descender
Shha with descender (Ԧ ԧ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Shha, Cyrillic letter Shha (Һ һ ''Һ һ'') by the addition of a descender to the right leg. Shha with descender is used in the Cyrillic alphabets of the Tat language (Caucasus), Tati and Juhuri language, Juhuri languages, where it represents a voiceless guttural plosive. Computing codes See also *Ⱨ ⱨ : H with descender, Latin letter H with descender *Cyrillic characters in Unicode References External linksUnicode definition {{Cyrillic navbox Cyrillic letters with diacritics Letters with descender (diacritic) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uyghur Language
Uyghur or Uighur (; , , or , , ), formerly known as Turki or Eastern Turki, is a Turkic languages, Turkic language with 8 to 13 million speakers (), spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Apart from Xinjiang, significant communities of Uyghur speakers are also located in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, and various other countries. Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; it is widely used in both social and official spheres, as well as in print, television, and radio. Other Ethnic minorities in China, ethnic minorities in Xinjiang also use Uyghur as a Lingua franca, common language. Uyghur belongs to the Karluk languages, Karluk branch of the Turkic languages, Turkic language family, which includes languages such as Uzbek language, Uzbek. Like many other Turkic languages, Uyghur displays vowel harmony and agglutination, lacks noun classes or grammatical gender, and is a Branchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shha With Descender
Shha with descender (Ԧ ԧ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Shha, Cyrillic letter Shha (Һ һ ''Һ һ'') by the addition of a descender to the right leg. Shha with descender is used in the Cyrillic alphabets of the Tat language (Caucasus), Tati and Juhuri language, Juhuri languages, where it represents a voiceless guttural plosive. Computing codes See also *Ⱨ ⱨ : H with descender, Latin letter H with descender *Cyrillic characters in Unicode References External linksUnicode definition {{Cyrillic navbox Cyrillic letters with diacritics Letters with descender (diacritic) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uyghur New Script
The Uyghur New Script () is a Latin alphabet with both Uniform Turkic Alphabet and Pinyin influence, used for writing the Uyghur language between 1965 and 1982, primarily by Uyghurs living in China. It was devised around 1959 and came to replace the Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet, which had also been used in China after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It is still an official alphabet in China, but after the reintroduction of an Arabic-derived alphabet, Uyghur Arabic alphabet, in 1982, there has been a huge decline in the use and the majority of Uyghurs today use the Arabic script. For romanized In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and transcription, ... Uyghur, the ISO/IEC 8859-1 compliant Uyghur Latin alphabet has become more common than the New Script. The letters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kha With Descender
Kha with descender (Ҳ ҳ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Unicode, this letter is called "Ha with descender". Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Kha (Х х ). Kha with descender is used in the alphabet of the following languages: Computing codes See also *Ⱨ ⱨ : Latin letter H with descender *Ĥ ĥ : Latin letter H with circumflex *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 with diacritics Letters with descender (diacritic) {{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
En With Descender (Cyrillic)
En with descender (Ң ң; italics: ''Ңң'') is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a descender to the right leg. It is used in several mostly Turkic languages to represent the voiced velar nasal , like the pronunciation of in "sing". In some cases, it also represents allophones of , most commonly the voiced uvular nasal . The Cyrillic letter En with descender is romanized as or . Usage The Cyrillic letter En with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages: Computing codes See also *Ӊ ӊ : Cyrillic letter En with tail *Ӈ ӈ : Cyrillic letter En with hook *Ҥ ҥ : Cyrillic ligature En Ge *Ñ ñ : Latin letter Ñ *Ň ň : Latin letter Ň *Ń ń : Latin letter Ń *Ŋ ŋ : Latin letter Eng * : Latin letter N with descender *Cyrillic characters in Unicode As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks: * CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Letter H With Descender
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, including English, having contributed many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, the sciences, medicine, and law. By the late Roman Republic, Old Latin had evolved into standardized Classical Latin. Vulgar Latin refers to the less prestigious colloquial registers, attested in inscriptions and some literary works such as those of the comic playwrights Plautus and Terence and the author Petronius. While of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N With Descender
Ꞑ, ꞑ ('' N with descender'') is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used in several New Turkic alphabet orthographies in 1930s (for instance, Tatar alphabet), as well as in the 1990s orthographies invented in attempts to restore the Latin alphabet for the Tatar language and the Chechen language. In the majority of languages this letter represented a velar nasal (as in English ''singing''). Due to problems with the display of this letter in phones and computers, it is sometimes replaced by a similar letter Ŋ ŋ. Free fonts that display it correctly includQuivira Gentium and Andika. History The letter appeared in late 1920s in the New Turkic Alphabet, however it was borrowed by some other non-Turkic peoples of the Soviet Union during the Latinisation campaign. In the 1990s the letter was used in Chechen Latin alphabet, in 2000s it was used in the Tatar Latin alphabet, both of them however are not in wide use now. In the Chechen alphabet the majuscule looked similar t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K With Descender
The Latin letter K with descender (capital: Ⱪ, minuscule: ⱪ; sometimes falsely rendered as k̡ or ķ) is a Latin letter. The letter is very easily confused with the Cyrillic letter ''ka'' with descender ( Қ), which is encoded differently in Unicode, even though it essentially shares the same letter forms. This Latin letter has been used in China for writing the Uighur language with the former Pinyin-derived “new script” alphabet (UPNY), borrowing the letter form from the Cyrillic letter (and in the past, the same fonts used for writing Uyghur in the Cyrillic script have been used for writing it in the Latin script), until that alphabet was deprecated and the language was converted back to use the Arabic alphabet (and then a newer Uyghur Latin alphabet was created using the Latin letter Q instead for romanisations). This letter was included a in 75-letter Latin script for the Abkhaz language Abkhaz, also known as Abkhazian, is a Northwest Caucasian languages, Northw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heng (letter)
Heng is a letter of the Latin alphabet, originating as a typographic ligature of '' h'' and '' ŋ''. It is used for a voiceless ''y''-like sound, such as in Dania transcription of the Danish language. Heng was used word-finally in early transcriptions of Mayan languages, where it may have represented a uvular fricative. It is sometimes used to write Judeo-Tat. Heng has been occasionally used by phonologists to represent a jocular phoneme in English, which includes both and as its allophones, to illustrate the limited usefulness of minimal pairs to distinguish phonemes. and are separate phonemes in English, even though no minimal pair for them exists due to their complementary distribution. Heng is also used in Bantu linguistics to indicate a voiced alveolar lateral fricative (). Both and are encoded in Unicode block Latin Extended-D; they were added with Unicode version 5.1 in April 2008. Transcription A variant form, , is encoded as part of the IPA Block. It i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juhuri Language
Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (, , ) is a Judeo-Persian dialect and the traditional language spoken by the Mountain Jews in the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and today in Israel. It belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages, albeit with heavy influence from Hebrew. The words ''Juhuri'' and ''Juhuro'' translate as "Jewish" and "Jews". The Iranic Tat language is spoken by the Muslim Tats of Azerbaijan, a group to which the Mountain Jews were mistakenly considered to belong during the era of Soviet historiography though the languages probably originated in the same region of the Persian Empire. Judeo-Tat features Semitic elements in all linguistic levels of the language. Uniquely, Judeo-Tat retains the voiced pharyngeal approximant, also known as ayin (ع/ע), a phoneme whose presence is considered to be a hallmark of Semitic languages such as Arabic and no longer found in Modern Hebrew; no neighbourin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
