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Ꞩ, ꞩ, ẜ (''S with oblique stroke'') is an extended Latin letter that was used in Latvian orthography until 1921; ꞩ was also used in Lower Sorbian language, Lower Sorbian until 1950. A variant of the letter S with a stroke, encoded at and , is used in Luiseño language, Luiseño and Cupeño language, Cupeño, and has been encoded since Unicode 16.0. 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 (orthography), 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 š'', ''Č, Č č'' respectively. In the final version of the Unified Northern Alphabet, created in the USSR in the 1930s for the Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, languages of the peoples of Siberia and the Far North, for t ...
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Unified Northern Alphabet
The Unified Northern Alphabet (UNA) () was a set of Latin alphabets created during the Latinisation in the Soviet Union for the Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, "small" languages of northern Russia and used for about five years during the 1930s. Systematic work on the development of writing in the languages of the peoples of the North began in 1926, when the Northern Faculty (known as Institute of the Peoples of the North, the Institute of the Peoples of the North (IPN) since 1930) of the was established. Alphabets were initially planned for Chukchi language, Chukchi, Even language, Even, Evenki language, Evenki, Nivkh language, Gilyak, Itelmen language, Itelmen, Ket language, Ket, Koryak language, Koryak, Mansi language, Mansi, Nanai language, Nanai, Nenets languages, Nenets, Kildin Sámi language, Kildin Sámi, Selkup language, Selkup, Siberian Yupik language, Siberian Yupik and Udege language, Udihe. Alphabet Alphabet of 1932:Я. ...
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S With Oblique Stroke - Different Strokes
S, or s, is the nineteenth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western Languages of Europe, European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic abjad, Northwest Semitic Shin (letter), šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma (letter), Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the ''Ξ, xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its associatio ...
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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 vertical bar, slash, or crossbar. A stroke is sometimes drawn through the numerals 7 (horizontal overbar) and 0 (overstruck foreslash), to make them more distinguishable from the number 1 and the letter O, respectively. (In some typefaces, one or other or both of these characters are designed in these styles; they are not produced by overstrike or by combining diacritic. The normal way in most of Europe to write the number seven is with a bar. ) In medieval English scribal abbreviations, a stroke or bar was used to indicate abbreviation. For example, , the pound sign, is a stylised form of the letter (the letter with a cross bar). For the specific usages of various letters with bars and strokes, see their individual articles. ...
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