Reversed Tse
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| Reversed Tse | |
|---|---|
| Ꙡ ꙡ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Old Novgorod dialect |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Time period | 11th–15th centuries |
Reversed Tse (Ꙡ ꙡ; italics: Ꙡ ꙡ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, which was used in the Veliky Novgorod birchbark letters in place of tse ц /t͡s/ and che ч /t͡ʃ/, as the distinction between them had been lost in the Old Novgorodian dialect, and is equivalent to neither.[1]
Novgorod birch-bark letter No. 439 (turn of the 13th century):[1][2]
[моисе]ѧ [ко] спирокоу оже ти не возѧло матее капи воложи
ю со проусомо ко мне ѧзо ти олово попродале и свинеꙡе и
клепание вохо оуже мне не ехати во соужедале воскоу коупле
нꙑ :г: пи а тобе поити соуда воложи олова со ꙡетꙑри безм
ене полотенеꙡа со дова ꙡереленаѧ а коунꙑ прави сопроста
