Abkhazian Che (Ҽ ҽ; italics: Ҽ ҽ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.
Abkhazian Che is used in the alphabet of the Abkhaz language, where it represents the voiceless retroflex affricate . In the alphabet, it is placed between and .
Resemblance The letter only coincidentally resembles a lowercase Latin letter e. Historically, it is the cursive form of the corresponding letter ( ) in the Abkhazian Latin alphabet, where it somewhat resembled a Greek φ.
Cche
Cche or Double Che (Ꚇ ꚇ; italics: Ꚇ ꚇ) was a letter of the Cyrillic script. It was used in the old Abkhaz alphabets, where it represented the voiceless retroflex affricate . The letter was invented by baron Peter von Uslar. In 1862 he published his linguistic study "Абхазский язык". The letter was Ҽ-shaped but in 1887 Uslar's study was reprinted by M. Zavadskiy who changed its shape and the result resembled a Cyrillic Ч doubled. Later the letter returned to its initial form which, created by linguist Uslar, is now part of the modern Abkhaz alphabet, which is now depicted as Ҽ.
Computing codes
Related characters and other similar characters Պ պ : Armenian letter Pe ɰ : Voiced velar approximant
See also Cyrillic characters in Unicode Abkhazian Che with descender
References
Further reading Daniels, Peter D. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, 1996.