Komi De (Ԁ ԁ; italics: ''Ԁ ԁ'''')'' is a letter of the

Molodtsov alphabet The Komi language, a Uralic languages, Uralic language spoken in the north-eastern part of European Russia, has been written in several different alphabets. Currently, Komi writing uses letters from the Cyrillic script. There have been five distinc ...

, a version of

Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Ea ...

. It was used only in the writing of the

Komi language Komi (, ), also known as Zyran, Zyrian or Komi-Zyryan (),. is the native language of the Komi (Zyrians). It is one of the Permian languages; the other regional varieties are Komi-Permyak, which has official status, and Komi-Yazva. Komi is s ...

in the 1920s. The lowercase form resembles the lowercase of the Latin letter D (d ''d'') and its uppercase form resembles a rotated capital Latin letter P or Cyrillic letter Er or a mirrored

soft sign The soft sign (Ь ь; italics: ) is a letter in the Cyrillic script that is used in various Slavic languages. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short or reduced front vowel. However, over time, the specific vowel sound it denote ...

. Komi De represents the

voiced dental plosive The voiced alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic s ...

, like the pronunciation of in "din". This sound is represented by the Cyrillic letter De (Д д) in other Cyrillic alphabets.

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Komi alphabet {{Uralic-lang-stub

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