Reversed Ze

{{Short description|Cyrillic letter used for /ɛ~æ/ in Enets}}

{{distinguish|text=the lowercase epsilon or the Latin letter Ɛ}}

{{infobox grapheme

|letter = Ԑ ԑ

|script = Cyrillic

|type = Alphabet

|typedesc = ic

|name = Reversed Ze

|image = Cyrillic letter Reversed Ze.svg

|imagesize = 120px

|imagealt =

|phonemes = /{{IPA link|ɛ}}~{{IPA link|æ}}/

|number =

}}

Reversed ze (Ԑ ԑ; italics: Ԑ ԑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is a reversed Cyrillic letter Ze (З з З з). It resembles the Latin letter epsilon (Ɛ ɛ) and the Greek letter Epsilon (Ε ε), as well as a hand-written form of the uppercase Latin E and Cyrillic letter Ye, but has different origins from them. Reversed Ze was added to the Unicode 5.0 Standard, but is still uncommon in most Cyrillic fonts.

Reversed Ze is used in Enets, where it represents {{IPA|/ɛ~æ/}} (like the e in bet or the a in ant).{{Cite web |title=Лесной энецкий язык {{!}} Малые языки России |url=https://minlang.iling-ran.ru/lang/lesnoy-eneckiy |access-date=2023-11-01 |website=minlang.iling-ran.ru}}{{Cite journal |last=Khanina |first=Olesya |date=2018-01-17 |title=Documenting a language with phonemic and phonetic variation: the case of Enets |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/209e4b0e-9f12-42b8-bf50-fec5e2f766cd/content |journal=Language Documentation & Conservation |volume=12 |pages=433 (4 in file)}}[http://www.omniglot.com/writing/enets.htm Enets (Онай базаан)] It has also been used in the Khanty language.{{cite web |title=PROPOSAL SUMMARY FORM TO ACCOMPANY SUBMISSIONS FOR ADDITIONS TO THE REPERTOIRE OF ISO/IEC 10646 |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05080r2-priest-cyrillic.pdf}}