| Komi Dje | |
|---|---|
| Ԃ ԃ | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [ɟ] |
Komi Dje (Ԃ,ԃ italics: Ԃ ԃ) is a letter of the Molodtsov alphabet, a variant of Cyrillic. It was used only in the writing of the Komi language in the 1920s.
The letter was derived from the Komi De (Ԁ d) with the addition of a hook. It represented the voiced palatal plosive /ɟ/.
| Preview | Ԃ | ԃ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KOMI DJE | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KOMI DJE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1282 | U+0502 | 1283 | U+0503 |
| UTF-8 | 212 130 | D4 82 | 212 131 | D4 83 |
| Numeric character reference | Ԃ | Ԃ | ԃ | ԃ |
For the Komi language Comrade Molodcov established the following 33 letters: а б в г ԁ ԃ е ж җ з ԅ ԇ і ј к л ԉ м н ԋ о ӧ п р с ԍ т ԏ у ч ш щ ы Basically the Komi script followed the Russian script with the introduction of 3 letters (ԁ, і, ј) from the Latin script. For soft consonants Komi-specific symbols were created: ԃ = дь, ԅ = зь, ԉ = ль, ԋ = нь, ԍ = сь, ԏ = ть. The letter е is pronounced like э, and щ like тш (affricate). For the designation of special sounds, not found in Russian, the letters were introduced җ, ԇ, ӧ. The first two of these are affricates, which can be represented approximately by Russian letters in the following manner: җ = дж; ԇ = дзь. For the pronunciation of ӧ the mouth is something like the pronunciation of Russian э.