Ꞩ
{{Short description|Letter of the Latin alphabet}}
{{Infobox grapheme
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|imagealt= Capital and lowercase S with oblique stroke
|script=Latin script
|type=Alphabet
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|language= Latvian orthography until 1921; Lower Sorbian until 1950; Luiseño and Cupeño languages, Unified Northern Alphabet.
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File:S with oblique stroke - different strokes.svg
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 until 1950.[https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA720.pdf Latin Extended-D] A variant of the letter S with a stroke, encoded at {{unichar|A7CC}} and {{unichar|a7cd}}, is used in LuiseñoChris Harvey/Languagegeek. 2004. [http://www.languagegeek.com/other/sstroke.html Luiseño S with Stroke], <languagegeek.com> and Cupeño,Jane H. Hill. 2005. [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2mz6t67j A Grammar of Cupeño], University of California Press.
and has been encoded since Unicode 16.0.
Uses in alphabets
In Latvian orthography until 1921 it meant the sound {{IPAblink|s}} (while the S s meant the sound {{IPAblink|z}}). It was also used in the trigraph Ꞩch ẜch and the tetragraph Tẜch tẜch, denoted by the sounds {{IPAblink|ʃ}} and {{IPAblink|t͡ʃ}}, respectively. Spelling reform Ꞩ ẜ ꞩ, Ꞩch ẜch, Tẜch tẜch were replaced by S s, Š š, Č č respectively.{{Cite journal | language = lv | first1 = Juris | last1 = Plaķis | title = Rīkojums par ortogrāfijas reformu | journal = Izglītības Ministrijas Mēnešraksts | year = 1921 | volume = 2 | pages = 218 | url = http://www.periodika.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html#panel:pa%7Cissue:/p_001_izmm1921n02%7Carticle:DIVL418%7Cpage:108%7CissueType:P | access-date = 2021-02-03 | archive-date = 2016-04-06 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160406095631/http://periodika.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html#panel:pa%7Cissue:/p_001_izmm1921n02%7Carticle:DIVL418%7Cpage:108%7CissueType:P | url-status = dead }}
In the final version of the Unified Northern Alphabet, created in the USSR in the 1930s for the languages of the peoples of Siberia and the Far North, for the Selkup, Khanty and Mansi languages, it meant the sound {{IPAblink|ʃ}}.{{cite book |author= |url=https://archive.org/details/materialy_1_konferentsii_ghj_razvitiyu_pismennosti_i_yazykov_narodov_severa |title=Материалы I всероссийской конференции по развитию языков и письменности народов Севера |trans-title=Proceedings of the 1st All-Russian Conference on the Development of Languages and Writing of the Peoples of the North |orig-year=1932 |editor1=Я. П. Алькор (Кошкин) |editor2=И. Д. Давыдов |edition= {{nowrap|3000 экз}} |location=М.-Л. |date=1932 |publisher=Учпедгиз}}
Code positions
The forms are represented in Unicode as:
- {{unichar|A7A8|LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH OBLIQUE STROKE}}
- {{unichar|A7A9|LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH OBLIQUE STROKE}}
The long s form with the bar (diacritic) is encoded at:
- {{unichar|1E9C|LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE}}
Das Buch der Schrift (Faulmann) 246.jpg| Latvian alphabet before 1921 (upper)
Unified Northern Alphabet.jpg| Unified northern alphabet
Sami alphabet 1933.jpg| Sami alphabet. 1933 version
See also
References
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