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Es (Cyrillic)

Cyrillic letter

Es (Cyrillic)
Summary

Cyrillic letter

FieldValue
letterС с
scriptCyrillic
typeAlphabet
typedescic
nameEs ()
imageCyrillic letter Es - uppercase and lowercase.svg
imageclassskin-invert-image
phonemes[], [] (if followed by е, ё, or ь)
number200 (Cyrillic numerals)
fam1Ϲ ϲ
languageOld Church Slavonic
unicodeU+0421, U+0441
equivalentsS s
''Es'', from [[Alexandre Benois]]' 1904 [[alphabet book]], with an illustration of [[sweetness]] (''Slasti'')

Es (С с; italics: С с or С с; italics: С с) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of in "sand".

St. Mark]], clearly showing examples of lunate sigma from which the Cyrillic Es was derived

History

The Cyrillic letter Es is derived from a variant of the Greek letter Sigma known as lunate sigma (Ϲ ϲ), in use in the Greek-speaking world in early medieval times. “Es” (Cyrillic: С) is related to the Latin letter “C” (C c), visuo-phono-semantically due to being a homoglyph and having similar roots, which C is a descendant of the Greek letter Gamma (Γ γ), and therefore С is related to the Latin C and Latin G. While the Cyrillic “С” represents the /s/ sound, many languages apply the value of to the Latin letter “C,” especially before front vowels like ‘‘e’’ and ‘‘i’’ (examples include English, French, Portuguese, and Latin American Spanish). This distinction between “hard” and “soft” C reflects historical phonetic shifts. As its name suggests, “Es” is also related to the Latin letter “S.”

The name of Es in the Early Cyrillic alphabet was (slovo), meaning "word" or "speech".

In the Cyrillic numeral system, Es had a value of 200.

Form

In the modern Latinized Cyrillic fonts in use today, the Cyrillic letter Es looks exactly like the Latin letter C, being one of six letters in the Cyrillic alphabet that share appearances with Latin alphabet letters but are pronounced differently (or at least differently from the most common pronunciation). This fact has been frequently abused by plagiarism detector circumventors.

Usage

As used in the alphabets of various languages, Es represents the following sounds:

  • voiceless alveolar fricative , like the pronunciation of in "sand"
  • palatalized voiceless alveolar fricative

The pronunciations shown in the table are the primary ones for each language; for details, consult the articles on the languages.

LanguagePosition in
alphabetPronunciation
Belarusian19th,
Bulgarian18th,
Macedonian22nd
Russian19th,
Serbian21st
Ukrainian22nd,
Ossetic (Iron)23rd

Computing codes

|0421|name1=Cyrillic Capital Letter Es |0441|name2=Cyrillic Small Letter Es |1C83|name3=Cyrillic Small Letter Wide Es

References

References

  1. (September 2003). "The Slavonic Languages". Routledge.
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