Char (Cyrillic)

Char
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originLezgian, Dargwa, Tabasaran, Avar
Sound values[tʃʼ]
In Unicodenone
History
Time periodlate 19th century
TransliterationsĊh

Char ( ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script which was historically used in four Northeast Caucasian languages using Peter von Uslar's alphabets.[1] It was derived from the Georgian Mkhedruli letter Ch'ari (ჭ). It is romanized as Ċh for Dargwa and Lezgian, the languages in which it was formerly used.[2] In 2022, the letter's capital and small versions were among 23 characters proposed for addition to the Unicode standard.[3]

Usage

Char was used in the following languages:

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Кюринская азбука и первая книга для чтения (in Russian). Тифлис : Кавказский Учебнный Округ. 1911.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  2. ^ "Non-Slavic Languages (in Cyrillic Script)" (PDF). Library of Congress. 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
  3. ^ Manulov, Nikita (September 18, 2022). "Proposal to encode 23 Cyrillic characters for old Uslar's Caucasian Alphabets" (PDF). Unicode. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
  4. ^ Усларъ, П. К. (1892). Khyurkilinskiy yazyk Хюркилинский язык (PDF). Тифлисъ.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Услар, П.К. (1979). Табасаранский язык. Этнография Кавказа 7.
  6. ^ Услар, П. К. (1889). Аварский язык. Этнография Кавказа. Языкознание. III. Тифлис.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)