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Ӏ ӏ

Ӏ , called Palotschka ( Russian па́лочка pálotschka 'chopsticks, sticks'), is a diacritical letter of the Cyrillic alphabet that is used in various Caucasian languages (e.g. Chechen , Kabardian , Avar or Adygean ). It signals that the preceding consonant is an ejective , in some languages ​​it also takes on the function of the glottal plosive (e.g. Cabardian елъэӀуащ [ jaɬaˈʔʷaːɕ ] 'he asked her for something'), in Chechen it is the voiced pharyngeal fricative .

In appearance, it is identical to the Latin capital letter I (and the Ukrainian and Belarusian capital letters І ) and, if not available, is now often replaced by these characters. Originally, the number 1 was set for him on Soviet typewriters , which always had the form of the capital letter I, which has not existed in Russian since the spelling reform of 1918 , so that the number 1 had to be usable for spelling Roman numbers (man For example, wrote the Roman numerals 1–6 as I, П, Ш, IУ, У, УI; for this, Arabic numbers looked something like this: I9I8).

The palochka is only considered a letter of its own where it denotes its own sound. Where it has a diacritical function, the combinations of consonant letters + palochka are listed together as a letter in the alphabet (cf. гӀ, кӀ, пӀ, тӀ, хӀ, цӀ and чӀ in the Chechen alphabet ).

Similar to ъ and ь , there are no different forms for uppercase and lowercase letters for the palochka, whereby the traditionally used shape is graphically integrated into the uppercase rather than the lowercase letters. For this reason, the lowercase letter ӏ was added to the U + 04CF position in Unicode 5.0 in 2006, but it is available in even fewer fonts than the one since the first Unicode version of 1991 (a little further ahead in the Cyrillic Unicode block , at the U + 04C0) available "capital letters" Ӏ. The function of the lower case letter is somewhat unclear, however, since the Unicode standard even contains the note for “upper case letters”: “normally without upper / lower case, but the formal lower case letter is 04CF ӏ”.

Character encoding

default Uppercase Ӏ Minuscule ӏ
Unicode Codepoint U + 04C0 U + 04CF
Surname CYRILLIC LETTER PALOCHKA CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PALOCHKA
UTF-8 D3 80 D3 8F
XML / XHTML decimal Ӏ ӏ
hexadecimal Ӏ ӏ

Individual evidence

  1. See the standard (PDF file; 257 kB) of the Unicode consortium , p. 43, under 04C0: “is usually not cased, but the formal lowercase is 04CF ӏ”.