Shwe (Cyrillic)

{{Short description|Cyrillic letter formerly used in Abkhaz}}

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|script = Cyrillic

|type = Alphabet

|typedesc = ic

|name = Shwe

|image = Cyrillic letter Shwe.svg

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|phonemes = {{IPA|/ʃʷ/}}

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Shwe (Ꚗ ꚗ; italics: Ꚗ ꚗ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.{{cite web

|url= https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+A696|title= Unicode Character "Ꚗ" (U+A696)|work=Compart |publisher=Compart AG | place= Oak Brook, IL|date=2021 |accessdate=2024-02-29}} It resembles the letter Sha (Ш ш; Ш ш) with a long tail attached to its bottom.

Shwe is used in an old orthography of the Abkhaz language, where it represents the labialized voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant {{IPA|/ʃʷ/}}. It corresponds to Шә.{{Cite book |last=Бгажба |first=Хухут Соломонович |url=http://apsnyteka.org/318-bgajba_h_iz_istorii_abkhazskoi_pismennosti.html |title=Из истории письменности в Абхазии |date=1967 |publisher=Мецниереба |location=Тбилиси |access-date=2025-04-17}}