Also known as Ze with descender, Dhe
letter of the Bashkir Cyrillic alphabet, representing /ð/
Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Sound values
- [ ð ], [ d͡z ]
- Transliterations
- Dh dh
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Encyclopedic overview
Ze with descender or Dhe (Ҙ ҙ; italics: Ҙ ҙ), is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is used in both the Bashkir and Wakhi languages, where it represents the voiced dental fricative /ð/ (like the ⟨th⟩ in this) and the voiced alveolar affricate /d͡z/ (like the ⟨ds⟩ in lads) respectively. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Ze (З з З з). It is romanized as Z with acute ⟨ź⟩ for Bashkir, and corresponds with Ezh ⟨ʒ⟩ in the Latin script of the Wakhi language and the Shughni language.
The letter itself was introduced in 1939.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ҙ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.