Reversed F | |
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ꟻ | |
Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | alphabetic |
Language of origin | Abkhaz language, Abaza language, Kabardian language, Adyghe language |
Phonetic usage | /ʃʷ/, [fʼ] |
Unicode codepoint | U+A7FB |
History | |
Development | 𓌉
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Time period | 1920s to 1930s |
Transliteration equivalents | Ꚗ ꚗ, Шә шә, Фӏ фӏ |
Other | |
Reversed F (ꟻ ) is an additional letter of Latin writing used in epigrahic inscriptions to abbreviate the words filia[1] or femina.[2] 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⟩.
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.[3]
Epigraphic reversed F can be represented with the following Unicode (Latin Extended-D) characters, the lowercase however is not supported by Unicode.
Preview | ꟻ | |
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Unicode name | LATIN EPIGRAPHIC LETTER REVERSED F | |
Encodings | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 43003 | U+A7FB |
UTF-8 | 234 159 187 | EA 9F BB |
Numeric character reference | ꟻ |
ꟻ |