El with descender (Ԯ ԯ; italics: ''Ԯ ԯ'') 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 ...
.
El with descender is used in the
Khanty language
Khanty (also spelled Khanti or Hanti), previously known as Ostyak (), is a branch of the Ugric languages composed of multiple dialect continuum, dialect continua. It is varyingly considered a language or a collection of distinct languages spoken i ...
, where it represents the
voiceless alveolar lateral fricative .
In
Itelmen, El with descender (Ԯ ԯ) is used in some publications instead of
El with hook, the nineteenth letter of the Itelmen alphabet, introduced with the new Cyrillic alphabet during 1984–1988. These letters also represent .
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Up to the release of Ԯ in Unicode 7.0, the letters
Ӆ or
Ԓ have been used as an alternative to Ԯ (like
Latin letter N with descender, Ꞑ ꞑ).
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Computing codes
See also
*Ӆ ӆ : Cyrillic letter El with tail
*Ԓ ԓ : Cyrillic letter El with hook
*Ԡ ԡ : Cyrillic letter El with middle hook
*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 ...
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