Ꞧ (lowercase ꞧ) is a letter derived from the
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from � ...
letter
R, combined with
bar diacritic.
Usage
It was used in
Latvian orthography until 1921,
Latin Extended-D
/ref> to represent palatalized dental trill /rʲ/. In modern orthography, it was replaced with Ŗ (R with a cedilla
A cedilla ( ; from Spanish language, Spanish ', "small ''ceda''", i.e. small "z"), or cedille (from French , ), is a hook or tail () added under certain letters (as a diacritic, diacritical mark) to indicate that their pronunciation is modif ...
), which was later became obsolete since 1946.
Computing codes
The forms are represented in Unicode as:
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See also
* Unified Northern Alphabet
References
Latin-script letters
Latvian language
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