Ꞩ

Ꞩ (lowercase ꞩ) is a letter that was used in Latvian orthography until 1921; ꞩ was also used in Lower Sorbian until 1950.[1] A variant of the letter S with a stroke is also used in Luiseño[2] and Cupeño.[3]

Latvian S with stroke on the left, Luiseño and Cupeño S with stroke on the right.

The forms are represented in Unicode as:

  • U+A7A8 Ꞩ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH OBLIQUE STROKE
  • U+A7A9 ꞩ LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH OBLIQUE STROKE

The long s form with the bar (diacritic) is encoded at:

  • U+1E9C ẜ LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE

See also

References
  1. Latin Extended-D
  2. Chris Harvey/Languagegeek. 2004. Luiseño S with Stroke, <languagegeek.com>
  3. Jane H. Hill. 2005. A Grammar of Cupeño, University of California Press.


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