êž’,
minuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (more formally '' minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing system ...
: êž“, is a modified letter of the
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia. The Gree ...
, formed from
C with the addition of a
bar. It was used in the final version of the
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 u ...
, approved in 1932 for
Saami,
Selkup,
Khanty,
Evenki,
Even,
Nanai,
Udege,
Chukchi,
Koryak and
Nivkh languages
to denote the sound , although in some of these languages in practice, several other alphabets were used. Also, this letter was used in the
Latinized Shugnan alphabet (1931-1939) to denote the sound .
The United States
Federal Geographic Data Committee uses the capital êž’ to represent the
Cambrian Period in geologic history. In
phonetic transcription
Phonetic transcription (also known as Phonetic script or Phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or ''phonetics'') by means of symbols. The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, such as the ...
, the lowercase êž“ may denote a
voiceless palatal fricative (
IPA: ), and in 1963, it was proposed as a symbol for a voiceless flat postalveolar fricative by
William A. Smalley.
In 19th-century American English dictionaries such as those by
Noah Webster and
William Holmes McGuffey, the letter was used to denote pronounced as .
Computer encoding
Its
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 ...
codepoints are and .
See also
*
Ukrainian Ye
Ukrainian Ye or Round Ye (Є є; italics: ) is a character of the Cyrillic script. It is a separate letter in the Ukrainian alphabet, the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet, and both the Carpathian Rusyn alphabets; in all of these, it comes directly ...
(Є є)
References
{{Latin script, C, stroke
Latin letters with diacritics
Phonetic transcription symbols