P with acute (

majuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally '' majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (more formally '' minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing syste ...

: Ṕ,

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (more formally '' minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing system ...

: ṕ) is a letter of the

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formed by addition of the acute

diacritic A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacrit ...

over the letter P. It is used in Washo, the Chimane alphabet by Wayne Gill, and in the

ISO 9 ISO 9 is an international standard establishing a system for the transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters constituting the alphabets of many Slavic and non-Slavic languages. Published on February 23, 1995 by the Internation ...

romanization of

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. In the past, it was used in

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Georg Kral, ''Grammatik der Wendischen Sprache in der Oberlausitz'' and

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Usage

In Washo, it represents the bilabial ejective stop () sound. In the

romanization of

, the letter replaces

pe with middle hook Pe with middle hook (Ҧ ҧ; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Pe (П п) by the addition of a hook to the middle of the right leg. Pe with middle hook was formerly used in the ...

(majuscule: Ҧ, minuscule: ҧ), which is pronounced as aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive () sound.''Information et documentation — Translittération des caractères cyrilliques en caractères latins — Langues slaves et non slaves'', table 3, p. 8. The letter appeared in the alphabet made by

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for the Middle Polish language, that was used from 16th until 18th century. It represented the palatalized

voiceless bilabial plosive The voiceless bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in most Speech communication, spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p. F ...

() sound.

References

Bibliography

*ISO 9: 1995. ''Information et documentation — Translittération des caractères cyrilliques en caractères latins — Langues slaves et non slaves, Organisation internationale de normalisation'', 1995. *Georg Kral, Grammatik der Wendischen Sprache in der Oberlausitz, Bautzen, M. Schmaler, 1895. *Josef Páta, ''Krátká příručka hornolužické srbštiny stručná mluvnice, rozhovory a korespondence'', Prague, Adolf Černy, 1920. *C. T. Pfuhl, ''Laut- und Formenlehre der oberlausitzisch-wendischen Sprache : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf das Altslawische'', Bautzen, M. Schmaler, 1895. *Jeanette Sake, ''A Grammar of Mosetén'', Berlin/New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, 504 p. {{Latin script, P, acute Latin letters with diacritics Polish letters with diacritics