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D with stroke

D with stroke can describe several letters used in various languages, past and present.

• Eth (Ð, ð), a letter used in Old English and present-day Icelandic and Faroese. Unicode U+00D0 and U+00F0.

• D with stroke (Đ, đ), a letter used in Shtokavian Western South Slavic languages (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian), Vietnamese, Northern Sami, and Skolt Sami. In Sami, it is a voiced dental fricative. In central Slavic, it is sometimes transcribed as dj as in Franjo Tudjman. In Vietnamese, "Đ" is pronounced like the English d; the stroke serves to distinguish it from the plain Vietnamese d, which is pronounced like the English z or y. Unicode U+0110 and U+0111.

• Latin capital letter African D (Ɖ, ɖ), Unicode U+0189 and U+0256.

• D–E ligature, which appears in old Spanish inscriptions; a similar symbol representing the word de ("of"). Not represented in Unicode.

These are all different letters which just happen to look almost the same, much like the Cyrillic abbreviation for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics СССР in Russian) happens to resemble the Latin letters CCCP.

Categories: South Slavic languages | Vietnamese language | Sami languages

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