W with acute ( majuscule: Ẃ,

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: ẃ) is a letter of the

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formed by addition of the

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diacritic A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacriti ...

over the letter W. In the past, it was used in

Lower Sorbian Lower may refer to: *Lower (surname) *Lower Township, New Jersey *Lower Receiver (firearms) *Lower Wick Gloucestershire, England See also *Nizhny Nizhny (russian: Ни́жний; masculine), Nizhnyaya (; feminine), or Nizhneye (russian: Ни́� ...

and

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. Now it is used in the

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as an accented form of ''w'', e. g. ''gẃraidd'' 'manly'.

Usage

The letter appeared in the alphabet made by

Jan Kochanowski Jan Kochanowski (; 1530 – 22 August 1584) was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polish literary language. He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz. ...

for

, that was used from 16th until 18th century. It represented the palatalizated

voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v. The sound is similar to vo ...

(vʲ) sound. It also was used in

.Georg Kral, ''Grammatik der Wendischen Sprache in der Oberlausitz''

Encoding

References

Bibliography

*Georg Kral, Grammatik der Wendischen Sprache in der Oberlausitz, Bautzen, M. Schmaler, 1895. *Josef Páta, ''Krátká příručka hornolužické srbštiny stručná mluvnice, rozhovory a korespondence'', Praze, Adolf Černy, 1920. *C. T. Pfuhl, ''Laut- und Formenlehre der oberlausitzisch-wendischen Sprache : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf das Altslawische'', Bautzen, M. Schmaler, 1895. {{Latin script, W, acute Latin letters with diacritics Polish letters with diacritics