W with acute (

majuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally '' majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (more formally '' minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing syste ...

: Ẃ,

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (more formally '' minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing system ...

: ẃ) is a letter of the

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from � ...

formed by addition of the acute

diacritic A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacrit ...

over the letter W. In the past, it was used in

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and

Middle Polish Middle Polish () is the period in the history of the Polish language between the 16th and 18th centuries. It evolved from Old Polish, and gave rise to Modern Polish. Spelling Many various orthographies were proposed to standardize Polish ...

. Now it is used in the

Welsh orthography Welsh orthography uses 29 letters (including eight digraphs) of the Latin script to write native Welsh words as well as established loanwords. Welsh orthography makes use of multiple diacritics, which are primarily used on vowels, namely th ...

as an accented form of ''w'', e. g. 'manly'.

Usage

The letter appeared in the alphabet made by

Jan Kochanowski Jan Kochanowski (; 1530 – 22 August 1584) was a Polish Renaissance poet who wrote in Latin and Polish and established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language. He has been called the greatest Polish poet before ...

for

, which was used from 16th until 18th century. It represented the palatalizated

voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v. The sound is similar to v ...

(vʲ) sound. It also was used in

.Georg Kral, ''Grammatik der Wendischen Sprache in der Oberlausitz''

Encoding

References

Bibliography

*Georg Kral, Grammatik der Wendischen Sprache in der Oberlausitz, Bautzen, M. Schmaler, 1895. *Josef Páta, ''Krátká příručka hornolužické srbštiny stručná mluvnice, rozhovory a korespondence'', Praze, Adolf Černy, 1920. *C. T. Pfuhl, ''Laut- und Formenlehre der oberlausitzisch-wendischen Sprache : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf das Altslawische'', Bautzen, M. Schmaler, 1895. {{Latin script, W, acute Latin letters with diacritics Polish letters with diacritics