Letter of the Latin alphabet


, , (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.[1] A variant of the letter S with a stroke, , is used in Luiseño[2] and Cupeño,[3] and has been accepted for Unicode edition 16.

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Latvian S with stroke on the left, Luiseño and Cupeño S with stroke on the right.

Uses in alphabets

In Latvian orthography until 1921 it meant the sound IPA: [s] (while the S s meant the sound IPA: [z]). It was also used in the trigraph Ꞩch ẜch and the tetragraph Tẜch tẜch, denoted by the sounds IPA: [ʃ] and IPA: [t͡ʃ], respectively. Spelling reform Ꞩ ẜ ꞩ, Ꞩch ẜch, Tẜch tẜch were replaced by S s, Š š, Č č respectively.[4]

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 IPA: [ʃ].[5]

Code positions

The forms are represented in Unicode as:

  • U+A7A8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH OBLIQUE STROKE
  • U+A7A9 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH OBLIQUE STROKE

The long s form with the bar (diacritic) is encoded at:

  • U+1E9C LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE

See also


References

  1. Chris Harvey/Languagegeek. 2004. Luiseño S with Stroke, <languagegeek.com>
  2. Jane H. Hill. 2005. A Grammar of Cupeño, University of California Press.
  3. Plaķis, Juris (1921). "Rīkojums par ortogrāfijas reformu". Izglītības Ministrijas Mēnešraksts (in Latvian). 2: 218. Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  4. Материалы I всероссийской конференции по развитию языков и письменности народов Севера (3000 экз ed.). М.-Л.: Учпедгиз. 1932. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)



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