Ď

Ď

Ď

Latin letter D with caron

The grapheme Ď (minuscule: ď) is a letter in the Czech and Slovak alphabets used to denote /ɟ/, the voiced palatal plosive (precisely alveolo-palatal), a sound similar to British English d in dew.[1][2] It was also used in Polabian. The majuscule of the letter (Ď) is formed from Latin D with the addition of a háček; the minuscule of the letter (ď) has a háček modified to an apostrophe-like stroke instead of a wedge. When collating, Ď is placed right after regular D in the alphabet.

D with caron in Doulos SIL

Ď is also used to represent uppercase eth in the coat of arms of Shetland although the standard uppercase form of eth is Ð.

Encoding

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In Unicode, the letters are encoded at U+010E Ď LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH CARON (Ď) and U+010F ď LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON (ď).[3]

As recorded by the Unicode Consortium, the form of the minuscule letter preferred for typesetting is "d with a curved apostrophe" (rather than "d with a caron diacritic").[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Skarnitzl, Radek; Bartošová, Petra. "Výzkum lingvální artikulace pomocí elektropalatografie na příkladu českých palatálních exploziv" (PDF). Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. [2]
    Hanulíková, Adriana; Hamann, Silke. "Illustrations of the IPA - Slovak" (PDF). International Phonetic Association. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Latin Extended-A". Unicode Consortium.
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