Ꞩ

Ꞩ, ꞩ, ẜ (S with oblique stroke) is a extended Latin letter that was used in Latvian orthography until 1921; ꞩ was also used in Lower Sorbian until 1950.[1] A variant of the letter S with a stroke is also used in Luiseño[2] and Cupeño.[3]

S with oblique stroke
Ꞩ ꞩ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Latvian orthography until 1921; Lower Sorbian until 1950; Luiseño and Cupeño languages, Unified Northern Alphabet.
History
Development	Ꞩ ꞩ
Other

Latvian S with stroke on the left, Luiseño and Cupeño S with stroke on the right.

Uses in alphabets

In Latvian orthography until 1921 it meant the sound IPA: [s] (while the S s meant the sound IPA: [z]). It was also used in the trigraph Ꞩch ẜch and the tetragraph Tẜch tẜch, denoted by the sounds IPA: [ʃ] and IPA: [t͡ʃ], respectively. Spelling reform Ꞩ ẜ ꞩ, Ꞩch ẜch, Tẜch tẜch were replaced by S s, Š š, Č č respectively.[4]

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 IPA: [ʃ].[5]

Code 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

• 
  Latvian alphabet before 1921 (upper)
• 
  Unified northern alphabet
• 
  Sami alphabet. 1933 version

See also

• Unified Northern Alphabet

References

1. Latin Extended-D
2. Chris Harvey/Languagegeek. 2004. Luiseño S with Stroke, <languagegeek.com>
3. Jane H. Hill. 2005. A Grammar of Cupeño, University of California Press.
4. Plaķis, Juris (1921). "Rīkojums par ortogrāfijas reformu". Izglītības Ministrijas Mēnešraksts (in Latvian). 2: 218.
5. Материалы I всероссийской конференции по развитию языков и письменности народов Севера (3000 экз ed.). М.-Л.: Учпедгиз. Я. П. Алькор (Кошкин), И. Д. Давыдов. 1932.