S with oblique stroke - different strokes

Ꞩ, ꞩ, ẜ (''S with oblique stroke'') is an extended Latin letter that was used in

Latvian orthography The modern Latvian language, Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the Latvian phonology, pronunciation of the language. The standard alphabet consists of 33 letters – 22 unmodified Latin letters ...

until 1921; ꞩ was also used in

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until 1950. A variant of the letter S with a stroke, encoded at and , is used in

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and

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, and has been encoded since Unicode 16.0.

Uses in alphabets

In Latvian orthography until 1921 it meant the sound (while the S s meant the sound ). It was also used in the trigraph ''Ꞩch ẜch'' and the

tetragraph A tetragraph, , is a sequence of four letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not necessarily correspond to the individual values of the letters. In German, for example, the tetragraph ''tsch'' repre ...

''Tẜch tẜch'', denoted by the sounds and , respectively. Spelling reform ''Ꞩ ẜ ꞩ'', ''Ꞩch ẜch'', ''Tẜch tẜch'' were replaced by ''S s'', '' Š š'', '' Č č'' respectively. In the final version of the

Unified Northern Alphabet The Unified Northern Alphabet (UNA) () was a set of Latin alphabets created during the Latinisation in the Soviet Union for the Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, "small" languages of northern Russia and u ...

, created in the USSR in the 1930s for the languages of the peoples of Siberia and the Far North, for the Selkup,

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and

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languages, it meant the sound .

Code positions

The forms are represented in Unicode as: * * The

long s The long s, , also known as the medial ''s'' or initial ''s'', is an Archaism, archaic form of the lowercase letter , found mostly in works from the late 8th to early 19th centuries. It replaced one or both of the letters ''s'' in a double-''s ...

form with the

bar (diacritic) A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme. It may be used as a diacritic to derive new letters from old ones, or simply as an addition to make a grapheme more distinct from others. It can take the form of a ...

is encoded at: * Das Buch der Schrift (Faulmann) 246.jpg, Latvian alphabet before 1921 (upper) Unified Northern Alphabet.jpg, Unified northern alphabet Sami alphabet 1933.jpg, Sami alphabet. 1933 version

References

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Uses in alphabets

Code positions

See also

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