The palatization mark is one of the historic signs of
Cyrillic that was used in
Old Church Slavonic to indicate the
palatalization of the base consonant. An example of use is in the word ('redeemer', palatalized л ). It is not to be confused with the
kamora, which resembles it, but indicates
pitch accent
A pitch-accent language, when spoken, has word accents in which one syllable in a word or morpheme is more prominent than the others, but the accentuated syllable is indicated by a contrasting pitch ( linguistic tone) rather than by loudness ...
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Old Church Slavonic
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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 ...
Cyrillic-script diacritics
Old Church Slavonic language
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