S with oblique stroke - different strokes

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

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until 1921; ꞩ was also used in Lower Sorbian until 1950. A variant of the letter S with a stroke is also used in Luiseño and

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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 ''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, 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 .

Code positions

The forms are represented in Unicode as: * * The long 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 v ...

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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