Cche or Double Che (Ꚇ ꚇ; italics: ''Ꚇ ꚇ'') is a letter of the

Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...

. It was used in the old Abkhaz alphabets, where it represents the

voiceless retroflex affricate The voiceless retroflex sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , sometimes simplified to or , and the equivalent X-SAMPA ...

. The letter was invented by baron Peter von Uslar. In 1862 he published his linguistic study "Абхазский язык".Бгажба Х. С. Из истории письменности в Абхазии. — Тбилиси. 1967. С. 34
/ref> The letter is Ҽ-shaped but in 1887 Uslar's study was reprinted by M. Zavadskiy who changed its shape and the result resembled a Cyrillic Ч doubled. Later the letter returned to its initial form which, created by linguist Uslar, is part of modern

Abkhaz alphabet Abkhaz and Abkhazian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Abkhazia, a de facto independent region with partial recognition as a sovereign state, otherwise recognized as part of Georgia * Abkhaz people or Abkhazians, persons from Abkh ...

, which is depicted as Ҽ.

Computing codes

Related characters and other similar characters

* Պ պ : Armenian letter Pe * ɰ : Voiced velar approximant * Ч ч : Cyrillic letter Che * Һ һ : Cyrillic letter Shha * Ꮒ : Cherokee letter Ni

References

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