Z With Stroke
Ƶ (minuscule: ƶ), called Z with stroke, is a letter of the Latin alphabet derived from Z, with the addition of a stroke through the center. Use in alphabets Ƶ was used in a range of alphabets developed within the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s. Soviet authorities sought a policy of Latinisation in the Soviet Union, replacing or developing scripts for minority languages within the USSR. Latin letters were chosen as the basis for these scripts in part to avoid the overt Russification that a Cyrillic writing system would represent, and to include both consonants and vowels in the written forms, unlike the Arabic abjad that was already in use for some of these languages. One such Soviet Latin-script writing system was the Jaꞑalif alphabet, also known as the New Turkic Alphabet. Ƶ is used in writing Tatar, Bashkir, and Karachay-Balkar in Jaꞑalif. This letter represents a voiced postalveolar fricative ( IPA: ) in these languages. Modern Latin-based scripts for ...
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