Reversed F |
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Writing system | Latin script |
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Type | alphabetic |
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Language of origin | Abkhaz language, Abaza language, Kabardian language, Adyghe language |
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Sound values | /ʃʷ/, [fʼ] |
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In Unicode | U+A7FB |
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Development | |
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Time period | 1920s to 1930s |
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Transliterations | Ꚗ ꚗ, Шә шә, Фӏ фӏ |
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Reversed F (ꟻ
) is an additional letter of Latin writing used in epigrahic inscriptions to abbreviate the words filia or femina. It was also formerly used in the writing of the Abaza, the Abkhaz, the Adyghe and the Kabardian languages in the 1920s and 1930s.
It is not to be confused with the turned digamma ⟨Ⅎ ⅎ⟩ or with turned f ⟨ɟ⟩.
Utilisation
Reversed F
Reversed F was formerly used in the writing of the Abaza, the Abkhaz, the Adyghe and in the Kabardian language in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Abkhaz Latin alphabet of 1930.
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Abaza Latin alphabet of 1932.
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Adyghe Latin alphabet of 1927 (page 1)
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Adyghe Latin alphabet of 1927 (page 2)
Computing codes
Epigraphic reversed F can be represented with the following Unicode (Latin Extended-D) characters, the lowercase however is not supported by Unicode.
Character information
Preview |
ꟻ
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Unicode name
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LATIN EPIGRAPHIC LETTER REVERSED F
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Encodings |
decimal |
hex
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Unicode |
43003 |
U+A7FB
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UTF-8 |
234 159 187 |
EA 9F BB
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Numeric character reference |
ꟻ |
ꟻ
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See also
References
Bibliography