Sha with breve (Ш̆ ш̆) is an additional letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
which was used for
Abkhaz and
Komi at the start of the 20th century. It is composed of a
sha with a
breve
A breve ( , less often , grammatical gender, neuter form of the Latin "short, brief") is the diacritic mark , shaped like the bottom half of a circle. As used in Ancient Greek, it is also called , . It resembles the caron (, the wedge or in ...
.
Usages
The ш̆ is used in multiple older
Cyrillic Abkhaz scripts and
Komi scripts, notably in:
* The alphabet of
Peter von Uslar 1862 ;
* The alphabet of
Gulia and Machavariani 1892 ;
* The alphabet of Chochua 1909 ;
* The alphabet of
Nicolaes Witsen
Nicolaes Witsen (; 8 May 1641 – 10 August 1717) was a Dutch statesman who was mayor of Amsterdam thirteen times, between 1682 and 1706. In 1693, he became administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). In 1689, he was extraordinary-ambas ...
1897 ;
File:Abkhazian alphabet in von Uslar 1862.jpg, Abkhaz alphabet of von Uslar 1862.
File:Abkhazian alphabet in Gulia and Machavariani 1892 02.jpg, Abkhaz alphabet of Gulia and Machavariani 1892.
File:Abkhazian alphabet in cursive in Gulia and Machavariani 1892 01.jpg, Cursive Abkhaz alphabet of Gulia and Machavariani 1892.
File:Abkhazian alphabet in Chochua 1909.webp, Abkhaz alphabet of Tchotchoua 1909 (not in order).
File:Abkhazian_alphabet_Chochua_1909_in_cursive.webp, Cursive Abkhaz alphabet of Chochua 1909.
File:Komi-permyak_alphabet_1897.JPG, Komi alpahbet of Nicolaes Witsen 1897.
Computing codes
The sha with breve can be represented with the following
Unicode
Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...
characters:
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Cyrillic letters with diacritics