Translingual

Letter

Ӏ upper case (lower case ӏ)

1. a letter in some Cyrillic (non-Slavic) alphabets

Translingual

Letter

ӏ lower case (upper case Ӏ)

1. palochka (the name of this letter in English)
2. The fifty-third letter of the Kabardian Cyrillic alphabet. It also provides the first or second component in a number of Kabardian digraphs and trigraphs. Its Kabardian name is ’ə and it represents a glottal stop. It is preceded by я and followed by the digraph ӏу. Example: ищӏэн (jəɕ’án, “he knew it”).
3. In the Avar Cyrillic alphabet, it is not an independent letter, but is combined with various consonants, such as гӏ, кӏ, лӏ, тӏ, хӏ, цӏ, чӏ (pronounced ʕ, kʼ, tɬʼ, tʼ, ħ, t͡sʼ, and t͡ʃʼ).
4. The palochka is also found in the Cyrillic alphabets of Abaza, Adyghe, Chechen, Dargwa, Ingush, Lak, Lezgi, and Tabasaran.

Usage notes

Often the capital Roman letter I or the numeral 1 is used instead of the Ӏ symbol. In some of these languages, such as Chechen, national keyboards still do not provide the Ӏ symbol, and the Roman letter or the numeral are in standard use.

See also

• Wikipedia article on the palochka
• Wikipedia article on the Cyrillic alphabet