Zhe with breve

id: zhe-with-breve-209-421411
title: Zhe with breve
text: Zhe with breve is a letter of the Cyrillic script created by Soviet linguists for the cyrillization of non-Slavic languages. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Zhe (Ж ж Ж ж) by an addition of a breve. Zhe with breve is currently used in Moldovan Cyrillic to represent, the voiced postalveolar affricate, like the pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ in "jam". It thus corresponds to ⟨g⟩ before front vowels in the Romanian Latin alphabet. The letter Џ had been used for a similar sound in the Romanian Cyri
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description: Cyrillic letter used for /d͡ʒ/ in Moldovan Cyrillic
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhe_with_breve
date created: 2006-10-21T13:17:09Z
date modified: 2024-09-11T13:45:22Z
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