Ꞧ
Appearance
R with oblique stroke | |
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Ꞧ ꞧ | |
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Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Latvian language |
History | |
Development |
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Time period | pre-1921 |
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Ꞧ (lowercase ꞧ) is a letter derived from the Latin alphabet letter R, combined with bar diacritic.
Usage
[edit]It was used in Latvian orthography until 1921,[1] to represent palatalized dental trill /rʲ/. In modern orthography, it was replaced with Ŗ (R with a cedilla), which was later became obsolete since 1946.
Computing codes
[edit]The forms are represented in Unicode as:
- U A7A6 Ꞧ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH OBLIQUE STROKE
- U A7A7 ꞧ LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH OBLIQUE STROKE