S with oblique stroke
Letter of the Latin alphabet
Ꞩ, ꞩ, ẜ (S with oblique stroke) is an extended Latin letter that was used in Latvian orthography until 1921; ꞩ was also used in Lower Sorbian until 1950. A variant of the letter S with a stroke, encoded at U+A7CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE and U+A7CD LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE, is used in Luiseño and Cupeño, and has been encoded since Unicode 16.0.
01Uses in alphabets
In Latvian orthography until 1921 it meant the sound [s] (while the S s meant the sound [z]). It was also used in the trigraph Ꞩch ẜch and the tetragraph Tẜch tẜch, denoted by the sounds [ʃ] and [t͡ʃ], respectively. Spelling reform Ꞩ ẜ ꞩ, Ꞩch ẜch, Tẜch tẜch were replaced by S s, Š š, Č č respectively.
In the final version of the Unified Northern Alphabet, created in the USSR in the 1930s for the languages of the peoples of Siberia and the Far North, for the Selkup, Khanty and Mansi languages, it meant the sound [ʃ].
02Code positions
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
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “S with oblique stroke”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- S with oblique stroke - uppercase and lowercase.svg by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, CC BY-SA 3.0
- S with oblique stroke - different strokes.svg by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, CC0
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