Sha with breve
Cyrillic letter
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Sha with breve (Ш̆ ш̆) is an additional letter of the Cyrillic script which was used for Abkhaz and Komi at the start of the 20th century. It is composed of a sha ⟨Ш⟩ with a breve.
| Sha with breve | |
|---|---|
| Ш̆ ш̆ | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | /ʃ/ |
| History | |
| Development | Ш ш
|
Usages
The ш̆ is used in multiple older Cyrillic Abkhaz scripts and Komi scripts, notably in:
- The alphabet of Peter von Uslar 1862;
- The alphabet of Gulia and Machavariani 1892;
- The alphabet of Chochua 1909;
- The alphabet of Nicolaes Witsen 1897;
Abkhaz alphabet of von Uslar 1862.
Abkhaz alphabet of Gulia and Machavariani 1892.
Cursive Abkhaz alphabet of Gulia and Machavariani 1892.
Abkhaz alphabet of Tchotchoua 1909 (not in order).
Cursive Abkhaz alphabet of Chochua 1909.
Komi alpahbet of Nicolaes Witsen 1897.
Computing codes
The sha with breve can be represented with the following Unicode characters:
| Preview | Ш | ш | ̆ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA | COMBINING BREVE | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1064 | U+0428 | 1096 | U+0448 | 774 | U+0306 |
| UTF-8 | 208 168 | D0 A8 | 209 136 | D1 88 | 204 134 | CC 86 |
| Numeric character reference | Ш | Ш | ш | ш | ̆ | ̆ |
| Named character reference | Ш | ш | ||||
| KOI8-R and KOI8-U | 251 | FB | 219 | DB | ||
| Code page 855 | 246 | F6 | 245 | F5 | ||
| Code page 866 | 152 | 98 | 232 | E8 | ||
| Windows-1251 | 216 | D8 | 248 | F8 | ||
| ISO-8859-5 | 200 | C8 | 232 | E8 | ||
| Macintosh Cyrillic | 152 | 98 | 248 | F8 | ||
References
- Гулиа, Д. И.; Мачавариани, К. Д. (1892). Абхазская азбука (in Russian). Тифлис. GuliaMatchavariani1892.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Ч̆оч̆уа, А. М. (1909). АБХАЗСКАЯ АЗБУКА (PDF) (in Russian). Тифлис. Tchotchoua1909.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Услар, Петр Карлович (1887). Этнография Кавказа, Языкознание. Vol. 1. Тифлис: Упр. Кавк. учеб. округа. Uslar1887.