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Ꞩ
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 language, Lower Sorbian until 1950. A variant of the letter S with a stroke, encoded at and , is used in Luiseño language, Luiseño and Cupeño language, Cupeño, and has been encoded since Unicode 16.0. 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 (orthography), trigraph ''Ꞩch ẜch'' and the tetragraph ''Tẜch tẜch'', denoted by the sounds and , respectively. Spelling reform ''Ꞩ ẜ ꞩ'', ''Ꞩch ẜch'', ''Tẜch tẜch'' were replaced by ''S s'', ''Š, Š š'', ''Č, Č č'' respectively. In the final version of the Unified Northern Alphabet, created in the USSR in the 1930s for the Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, languages of the peoples of Siberia and the Far North, for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unified Northern Alphabet
The Unified Northern Alphabet (UNA) () was a set of Latin alphabets created during the Latinisation in the Soviet Union for the Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, "small" languages of northern Russia and used for about five years during the 1930s. Systematic work on the development of writing in the languages of the peoples of the North began in 1926, when the Northern Faculty (known as Institute of the Peoples of the North, the Institute of the Peoples of the North (IPN) since 1930) of the was established. Alphabets were initially planned for Chukchi language, Chukchi, Even language, Even, Evenki language, Evenki, Nivkh language, Gilyak, Itelmen language, Itelmen, Ket language, Ket, Koryak language, Koryak, Mansi language, Mansi, Nanai language, Nanai, Nenets languages, Nenets, Kildin Sámi language, Kildin Sámi, Selkup language, Selkup, Siberian Yupik language, Siberian Yupik and Udege language, Udihe. Alphabet Alphabet of 1932:Я. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
