Abkhazian Che

Abkhazian Che
Abkhazian Che
Ҽ ҽ
Ꚇ ꚇ
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/ʈʂ/
History
Development	Ҽ ҽ;
Variations	Ꚇ ꚇ
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Abkhazian Che (Ҽ ҽ; italics: Ҽ ҽ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.^[1]

Abkhazian Che is used in the alphabet of the Abkhaz language, where it represents the voiceless retroflex affricate /ʈʂ/. In the alphabet, it is placed between ⟨Ҷ⟩ and ⟨Ҿ⟩.

Resemblance

The letter only coincidentally resembles a lowercase Latin letter e. Historically, it is the cursive form of the corresponding letter ( ) in the Abkhazian Latin alphabet, where it somewhat resembled a Greek φ.

Cche

Cche or Double Che (Ꚇ ꚇ; italics: Ꚇ ꚇ) was a letter of the Cyrillic script.^[2] It was used in the old Abkhaz alphabets, where it represented the voiceless retroflex affricate /ʈ͡ʂ/. The letter was invented by baron Peter von Uslar. In 1862 he published his linguistic study "Абхазский язык".^[3] The letter was Ҽ-shaped but in 1887 Uslar's study was reprinted by M. Zavadskiy who changed its shape and the result resembled a Cyrillic Ч doubled.^[3] Later the letter returned to its initial form which, created by linguist Uslar, is now part of the modern Abkhaz alphabet, which is now depicted as Ҽ.

Computing codes

Character information
Preview	Ҽ		ҽ		Ꚇ		ꚇ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CCHE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CCHE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1212	U+04BC	1213	U+04BD	42630	U+A686	42631	U+A687
UTF-8	210 188	D2 BC	210 189	D2 BD	234 154 134	EA 9A 86	234 154 135	EA 9A 87
Numeric character reference	Ҽ	Ҽ	ҽ	ҽ	Ꚇ	Ꚇ	ꚇ	ꚇ

Related characters and other similar characters

Պ պ : Armenian letter Pe
ɰ : Voiced velar approximant

References

↑ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. 2010. p. 42. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
↑ "Cyrillic Extended-B: Range: A640–A69F" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0. Unicode Inc. 2010. p. 998. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
1 2 "ИЗ ИСТОРИИ ПИСЬМЕННОСТИ В АБХАЗИИ" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 15, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2023.