Dzze

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Dzze
Ꚉ ꚉ
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originAbkhaz, Ossetian, Komi
Sound values[d͡ʑ]
The nameplate of the first edition of Ossetian newspaper Rastdzinad (Растджинад) with the letter Dzze in the title.
Dzze, in a late 19th century Komi alphabet

Dzze (Ꚉ ꚉ; italics:  ) is a letter of the old Abkhaz, Ossetic and Komi alphabets. It represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate (d͡ʑ). It resembles the letter De with a tail of a small Ze.

In Ossetian, it was later replaced with digraph Dz (currently Дз).

It is used to distinguish the affricate /d͜z/ from the sequence d-z in some phonetic dictionaries.[1]

Computing codes

Character information
Preview
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZZE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZZE
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode42632U+A68842633U+A689
UTF-8234 154 136EA 9A 88234 154 137EA 9A 89
Numeric character referenceꚈꚈꚉꚉ

See also

References

  1. e.g. Орфоєпичний словник (Орфоэпический словарь на украиском языке), 1984. Н.И. Погребной, ed. Радяська Школа, Kiev.