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Encyclopedia > Palochka
Cyrillic Palochka
Image:Cyrillic letter Palochka.png
Cyrillic alphabet
А Б В Г Ґ Ѓ Д
Ђ Е Ё Є Ж З Ѕ
И І Ї Й Ј К Ќ
Л Љ М Н Њ О П
Р С Т Ћ У Ў Ф
Х Ц Ч Џ Ш Щ Ъ
Ы Ь Э Ю Я    
Non-Slavic Letters
Ӑ Ә Ӕ Ҕ Ӗ Ғ Ӏ
Ӂ Җ Ӝ Ҙ Ӟ Ӡ Ӣ
Ӥ Ҡ Қ Ҟ Ҝ Ң Ҥ
Ө Ӧ Ҧ Ҫ Ҷ Ҹ Ӵ
Ҽ Ҿ Ҩ Ҳ Һ Ҭ Ҵ
Ӳ Ӯ Ү Ұ Ӱ    
Archaic letters
Ҁ Ѹ Ѡ Ѿ Ѻ Ѣ ІА
Ѥ Ѧ Ѫ Ѩ Ѭ Ѯ Ѱ
Ѳ Ѵ Ѷ

Palochka or Páločka (majuscule: Ӏ, minuscule: ӏ, Russian: па́лочка, a stick) is a letter added to the Cyrillic alphabet when used in writing several Caucasian languages, such as Abaza, Adyghe, Avar, Chechen, Dargwa, Ingush, Kabardian, Lak, Lezgian and Tabassaran. Image File history File links Cyrillic_letter_Palochka. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced , also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... A (А, а) is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Be (Б, б) is the second letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Ve (Ð’, в) is the third letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the sound . ... Ge or He (Г, г) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing or in different languages. ... Ghe (Ґ, Ò‘, also called ge with upturn) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet pronounced like the G in go. Originally part of the Ukrainian and Belarusian alphabets, its function was replaced by the letter Ge (Г) in the Soviet Union after 1933. ... Gje (Ѓ, Ñ“) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language and sometimes equivalent to Ñ’, mainly in Serbian words. ... De (Д, д) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Dje, or Djerv (Ђ, Ñ’) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian language to represent the sound , a voiced alveolo-palatal affricate. ... Ye, or E (Е, е), is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Yo (Ё, Ñ‘) is the seventh letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, invented to replace the recklessly confused е and o for soft o relatively soon after the introduction of the Civil alphabet. ... Ye (Є, Ñ”) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Ukrainian language to represent the iotated vowel sound /je/. Categories: Cyrillic letters | Writing system stubs ... Zhe (Ж, ж) is the letter of Cyrillic alphabet which represents the voiced postalveolar fricative (listen), similar to the s in the English word treasure. Zhe is the 7th letter of the Bulgarian and Belarusian alphabets, the 8th letter in the Macedonian, Russian and Serbian alphabets, and the 9th in the Ukrainian... Ze (З, з) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /z/. Its easily confusable with the number 3, for example the stages of the N1 rocket. ... Dze (Ð…, Ñ•) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language; it is, however, much older and is found in the original Slavonic alphabet. ... I or Y (И, и) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, pronounced in Russian, or in Ukrainian. ... I (І, Ñ–) (also called decimal I, or dotted I) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Belarusian and Ukrainian languages. ... Yi (Ї, ї) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Ukrainian language. ... Й, й (Short I) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Je (Ј, ј) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian and Macedonian languages. ... Ka (К, к) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Kje (Ќ, ќ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Macedonian language. ... El (Л, л) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... The Cyrillic letter lje (Љ, љ) was originally a ligature of Л and Ь. It is used in the Serbian language. ... Em (М, м) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /m/. Code positions This article is a substub, the first step on the way to becoming a full article. ... En (Н, н) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /n/. It looks exactly like the Latin capital letter H. Categories: Cyrillic letters | Writing system stubs ... The Cyrillic letter Nje (Њ, њ) was originally a ligature of Н and Ь. It is used in the Serbian language, where it represents a voiced palatal nasal. ... O (О, о) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /o/. Categories: Cyrillic letters | Substubs ... Pe (П, п) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /p/. It arose directly from the Greek letter Pi (Π, Ï€). The shape of capital printed Pe can be described as a square with the bottom line missing, not to be confused with El (Cyrillic), which has a curved left. ... Er (Р, р) is the eighteenth letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Es (С, с) is the nineteenth letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Te (Т, т) is the letter representing the consonant /t/ in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Tshe (Ћ, Ñ›) is 23rd letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet. ... U (У, у) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel /u/. Categories: Cyrillic letters | Substubs ... Short U (ÐŽ, Ñž) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the short semivowel in the Belarusian language, pronounced similarly to W in English. ... The acronym EF can refer to multiple things: In physics, an electric field In environmentalism, the Earth First! movement This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Kha, or Ha, (Х, х) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the voiceless velar fricative /x/ (pronounced like the ch in German Bach). It is derived from the greek letter chi. ... Tse (Ц, ц) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Che (Ч, ч) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant cluster /tS/ or /tS/ (like the ch in change). Categories: Cyrillic letters | Stub ... Dzhe (Џ, ÑŸ) is a letter of Vuk Karadžićs Cyrillic alphabet reform, used in Serbian and Macedonian to represent the affricate (like the J in English jump). It replaces the digraph дж from some other Cyrillic alphabets. ... Sha (Ш, ш) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant sound or . ... Shcha or Shta (Щ, щ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant /ʃʲ/, /ʃʧ/, /ʃʲʧʲ/ in Russian, and the consonant /ʃt/ in Bulgarian. ... The letter (Ъ, ÑŠ) of the Cyrillic alphabet is known as the hard sign (твёрдый знак ) in the modern Russian alphabet and as er golyam (ер голям, big yer) in the Bulgarian alphabet. ... Yery (Ы, Ñ‹) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. ... Soft Sign (Ь, ÑŒ) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet (Russian: мягкий знак (mÄ­ahkiy znak) [], Ukrainian: м’який знак (miakyy znak) [], Belarusian: мяккі знак (miakki znak) []). It is named so because it usually indicates softening, or palatalization, of the preceding consonant or of the group of them. ... E or E Oborotnoye (Э, э) is a letter of the Russian alphabet, representing the non-iotated vowel, IPA: or ). Code positions See also Glagolitic alphabet Categories: | ... Yu (Ю, ю) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the iotated vowel /ju/. In common with many Cyrillic letters, it was derived from a digraph, being a ligature of Izhe (then І) or Izhei (then Н, both now И) and Uk (Ѹ, no longer in the alphabet). ... Ya (Я, я) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the iotated vowel (IPA). ...  Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language  Countries where an East Slavic language is the national language  Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup... is a cyrillic letter used in the Chuvash language orthography. ... Cyrillic schwa (Ó˜, Ó™) is a Cyrillic letter. ... is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet now used in Ossetic. ... (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz to represent a voiced velar fricative (IPA: ). is the sixth letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, placed between the digraphs Гь and . ... is a Cyrillic letter used only in Chuvash language. ... The Cyrillic letter Ge stroke or Ayn (in Kazakh) (Ò’,Ò“) is a Г with a horizontal stroke. ... Only used in the Gagauz language, is a letter of the Cyrillic Alphabet, Zhe (Ж) with breve. ... The Cyrillic letter Zhje Ò– (lowercase: Ò—, Unicode name: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER and CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER) is used as a letter in the Tatar, Kalmyk and Dungan alphabets. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Ò˜ (Dhe, like in English this) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir language. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in the Abkhazian language. ... I or Y (И, и) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing in Russian and in Ukrainian. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Ò  (Qa) is a Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir language. ... The Cyrillic letter K descender or Qaf (in Kazakh (Òš,Ò›) is a К with a descender. ... (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz to represent an uvular ejective (). is the 26th letter of the Abkhaz alphabet, placed between the digraphs Қь and Ҟь. Categories: | ... (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Azeri. ... The Cyrillic letter N descender or Ng (in Kazakh) (Ò¢, Ò£) is an Н with a descender. ... is a Cyrillic letter used in Altai, Yakut, and Mari languages. ... The Cyrillic letter Oe or Barred O (Ó¨, Ó©) is an O with a horizontal line through it. ... is a Cyrillic alphabet now used in the Kurdish, Altay, Khakass, Mari, Udmurt, and Komi languages. ... is a Cyrillic letter only used in Abkhaz language, where it is located on the 34th letter of the alphabet. ... is a Cyrillic alphabet used for the Bashkir language. ... Dzhe (Џ, ÑŸ) is a letter of Vuk Karadžićs Cyrillic alphabet reform, used in Serbian and Macedonian to represent the affricate (like the J in English jump). It replaces digraphs дж or чж or letter Ò— (Zhje) from some other Cyrillic alphabets. ... (minuscule: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet used in Azeri. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Ò¼ (Retroflex Che) is a letter found in the Cyrillic Alphabet. ... (Retroflex Che with descender) is a Cyrillic letter currently used for the Abkhazian language. ... Ò¨ (pronounced ɥə as a letter) is a letter of the cyrillic alphabet. ... Ò² Ò³, (soft Kha) is a letter of certain Cyrillic alphabets such as Abkhaz, Karakalpak, Khakas, Tajik, also pre-1992 Uzbek (now the Latin script in use). ... He (Òº,Ò») /h/ is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet used in Kazakh, Tatar, Sakha, Kalmyk, Bashkir and Kildin Sami. ... (Te with descender) is a letter of Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhazian language. ... is a ligature of Cyrillic used only for the Abkhazian language, located between Ц and Ч. Categories: | ... is used for the Chuvash langauge languages. ... U (У, у) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the vowel after non-palatalized (hard) consonants. ... The Cyrillic letter Straight U or Hamza + Waw with Damma (Ò®, Ò¯) (in Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir languages, and many other) is a straight form of the Cyrillic letter У. It is used to represent the close front rounded vowel /y/. Though the letter resembles the Latin letter Y in its uppercase form, the... The Cyrillic letter Straight U with stroke or Waw with Damma (in Kazakh) (Ò°, Ò±) is a straight Cyrillic У with a horizontal line through it. ... is a letter of Cyrillic alphabet to be used for the Khakass, Mari, Altai, and Khanty languages. ... The Early Cyrillic alphabet was a writing system developed in Bulgaria during the 10th century A.D. for the writing of Old Church Slavonic. ... The letter koppa in the Early Cyrillic alphabet Koppa (?, ?) is an archaic letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, originally derived from the Greek letter Qoppa. ... Uk (, ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. ... Omega (Ѡ, ѡ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek Omega (Ω, ω). These early letters were called Archaic letters. ... Ot (Ѿ, Ñ¿) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, a ligature of the letters Omega and Te. ... Round Omega (Ѻ, Ñ») is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek Omega. ... Yat or Jat (, ) is the 32nd letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet and name of the sound represented by it. ... Ya (Я, я) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the iotated vowel (IPA). ... E iotified (Ѥ, ѥ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. ... Little Yus (, ) and Big Yus (, ), or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. ... Little Yus (, ) and Big Yus (, ), or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. ... Little Yus (, ) and Big Yus (, ), or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. ... Little Yus (, ) and Big Yus (, ), or Jus, are the letters representing two Common Slavonic nasal vowels, in the early Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets. ... Ksi (Ñ®, ѯ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek letter Xi. ... Psi (Ѱ, ѱ) is a letter in the early Cyrillic alphabet, derived from the Greek letter psi (Ψ, ψ). It represents the sound /ps/, as in English naps, and was used largely in loan words from foreign languages. ... Fita (Ѳ, ѳ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, descended from the Greek Theta. ... Izhitsa (Ñ´, ѵ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. ... Izhitsa (Ѵ, ѵ) is a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet. ... Vintage German letter balance for home use Look up letter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced , also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The languages of the Caucasus are a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. ... The Abaza language (Абаза Бызшва/Abaza Byzšwa) is a language of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian autonomous republic of Turkey, where the Roman alphabet is used. ... Adyghe (адыгэбзэ adygebze, adÉ™găbză) is one of the two official languages of the Federal Republic of Adygea in the Russian Federation, the other being Russian. ... This article is about the Avar Language, for information on the Avar people please see Caucasian Avars. ... The Chechen language has about 1,200,000 speakers, most of whom live in Russia. ... Dargin is a Dargwa language spoken by the Dargin people. ... Ingush language is a language spoken by approximately 230,315 people (1989) across a region covering Ingushetia, Chechnya, Uzbekistan and Russia. ... The Kabardian language is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken in Russia, Jordan and Turkey. ... Lak language (лакку маз) is the language of the Lak people from the Russian autonomous republic of Daghestan, where it is one of the six literary languages. ... Lezgi, also called Lezgian, is a language spoken by the Lezgi who live in southern Dagestan (a republic of Russia) and northern Azerbaijan. ... Tabasaran (or Tabassaran) is a member of the Lezgian subfamily of the Northeast Caucasian languages. ...


Palochka usually has no independent phonetic value, but is used to modify the reading of a preceding letter. It signals that a preceding consonant is an ejective. Example from the Avar language: кӀалъазе (IPA: /k’a'ɬaze/) to speak. In some of the languages that use the palochka (Adyghe, Kabardian, Chechen, Ingush), it also functions as the glottal stop. Example from the Kabardian language: елъэӀуащ (IPA: /jaɬa'ʔʷaːɕ/)., he asked her for something. Ejective consonants are a class of consonants which may contrast with aspirated or tenuis consonants in a language. ... This article is about the Avar Language, for information on the Avar people please see Caucasian Avars. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... The glottal stop or voiceless glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in many spoken languages. ... The Kabardian language is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken in Russia, Jordan and Turkey. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ...


It looks exacly like uppercase Latin letter I and uppercase Ukrainian I. The minuscule form of palochka was not encoded until from Unicode 5.0. As of 2004, palochka is still not present in standard keyboard layouts or common fonts, and so cannot be easily entered or reliably displayed on many computer systems. It is usually replaced with Latin letters I or l, or sometimes (in chats or fora, for example) even with the digit 1, although technically this is incorrect. The lowercase i redirects here. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


In the days of the mechanical typewriter, this letter was the Roman numeral I, which was included on most Cyrillic typewriters for use in typing dates (e.g., 25.XII.1953 г.). The system of Roman numerals is a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, and was adapted from Etruscan numerals. ...


Code positions

Character encoding Case Decimal Hexadecimal Octal Binary
Unicode Capital 1216 04C0 002300 0000010011000000
Small 1231 04CF 002317 0000010011001111

Its HTML entities are: Ӏ or Ӏ for majuscule form, and ӏ or ӏ for minuscule form. A character encoding consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers and the transmission of text through telecommunication networks. ... In orthography and typography, letter case (or just case) is the distinction between majuscule (capital or upper-case) and minuscule (lower_case) letters. ... The decimal (base ten or occasionally denary) numeral system has ten as its base. ... In mathematics and computer science, base-16, hexadecimal, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix or base of 16 usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F or a–f. ... The octal numeral system is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7. ... The binary numeral system (base 2 numerals) represents numeric values using two symbols, typically 0 and 1. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Majuscules or capital letters (in the Roman alphabet: A, B, C, ...) are one type of case in a writing system. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Letter case. ... HTML has been in use since 1991 (note that the W3C international standard is now XHTML), but the first standardized version with a reasonably complete treatment of international characters was version 4. ...


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Palochka or Páločka (majuscule: Ӏ, minuscule: ӏ, Russian: па́лочка, a stick) is a letter added to the Cyrillic alphabet when used in writing several Caucasian languages, such as Abaza, Adyghe, Avar, Chechen, Dargwa, Ingush, Kabardian, Lak, Lezgian and Tabassaran.
The minuscule form of palochka was not encoded until from Unicode 5.0.
As of 2004, palochka is still not present in standard keyboard layouts or common fonts, and so cannot be easily entered or reliably displayed on many computer systems.
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