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Uk (Ѹ ѹ; italics: Ѹ ѹ) is a digraph of the early Cyrillic alphabet of the letters О and У, although commonly considered and used as a single letter. To save space, it was often written as a vertical ligature (Ꙋ ꙋ), called "monograph Uk". In modern times, ⟨оу⟩ has been replaced by the simple ⟨у⟩. Ѹ is romanized as U, Ꙋ is romanized as Ū.[1]
Koppa (Ҁ ҁ; italics: Ҁ ҁ) is an archaic numeral character of the Cyrillic script. Its form (and modern name) are derived from some forms of the Greek letter Koppa (Ϙ ϙ).[2][3]
Koppa was used as a numeral character in the oldest Cyrillic manuscripts, representing the value 90 (exactly as its Greek ancestor did). It was replaced relatively early around 1300 by the Cyrillic letter Che (Ч ч), which is similar in appearance and originally had no numeric value. Isolated examples of Ч used as a numeral are found in the East and South Slavonic areas as early as the eleventh century, though Koppa continued in regular use into the fourteenth century. In some varieties of Western Cyrillic, however, Koppa was retained, and Ч used with the value 60, replacing the Cyrillic letter Ksi (Ѯ ѯ).
Cyrillic Koppa never had a phonetic value and was never used as a letter by any national language using Cyrillic. However, certain modern textbooks and dictionaries of Old Church Slavonic language insert this character among other letters of the early Cyrillic alphabet, either between П and Р (to reproduce the Greek alphabetical order) or at the very end of the list.
Computing codes
[edit]Preview | Ҁ | ҁ | ||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KOPPA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KOPPA | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1152 | U+0480 | 1153 | U+0481 |
UTF-8 | 210 128 | D2 80 | 210 129 | D2 81 |
Numeric character reference | Ҁ |
Ҁ |
ҁ |
ҁ |
See also
[edit]- Q q : Latin letter Q
- Қ қ : Cyrillic letter ka with descender, used in Turkic languages and Tajik to transcribe the voiceless uvular plosive (/q/)
- Ӄ ӄ : Cyrillic letter ka with hook, used in languages in the Russian Far East to transcribe the voiceless uvular plosive (/q/)
Further reading
[edit]- Старославянский словарь (по рукописям X—XI веков), под редакцией Р. М. Цейтлин, Р. Вечерки и Э. Благовой, Москва, “Русский язык”, 1994, ISBN 5-200-01113-2 (an Old Slavonic dictionary compiled by manuscripts of 10-11 c.).
- Lunt, Horace G. Old Church Slavonic grammar. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001 (7th ed.), ISBN 3-11-016284-9.
References
[edit]- ^ "Church Slavic" (PDF). Library of Congress. 2022. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
- ^ Kempgen, Sebastian (2016-11-24). Slavic Alphabet Tables: Volume 3 - Odds and Ends (1530-1963) (in Russian). University of Bamberg Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-3-86309-446-1.
- ^ "Numerals". archive.ph. 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
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