Dzze (Ꚉ ꚉ; italics:
''Ꚉ ꚉ'') is a letter of the old
Abkhaz,
Ossetic and
Komi alphabets. It represents the
voiced alveolo-palatal affricate
The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are , , and , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are d_z\ a ...
(d͡ʑ).
In
Ossetian, it was later replaced with digraph ''dz'' (currently ''дз'').
It is used to distinguish the affricate from the sequence d-z in some phonetic dictionaries.
[e.g. ''Орфоєпичний словник'' (''Орфоэпический словарь на украиском языке''), 1984. Н.И. Погребной, ed. Радяська Школа, Kiev.]
Computing codes
See also
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Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version 15.0 Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A ...
References
Cyrillic letters
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