Sha with breve

Sha with breve (Ш̆ ш̆) is an additional letter of the Cyrillic script which was used for Abkhaz and Komi at the start of the 20th century. It is composed of a sha ⟨Ш⟩ with a breve.

Sha with breve
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	/ʃ/
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Usages

The ш̆ is used in multiple older Cyrillic Abkhaz scripts and Komi scripts, notably in:

• The alphabet of Peter von Uslar 1862 ;
• The alphabet of Gulia and Machavariani 1892 ;
• The alphabet of Chochua 1909 ;
• The alphabet of Nicolaes Witsen 1897 ;

• 
  Abkhaz alphabet of von Uslar 1862.
• 
  Abkhaz alphabet of Gulia and Machavariani 1892.
• 
  Cursive Abkhaz alphabet of Gulia and Machavariani 1892.
• 
  Abkhaz alphabet of Tchotchoua 1909 (not in order).
• 
  Cursive Abkhaz alphabet of Chochua 1909.
• 
  Komi alpahbet of Nicolaes Witsen 1897.

Computing codes

The sha with breve can be represented with the following Unicode characters:

Character information

Preview	Ш		ш		̆
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA		COMBINING BREVE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1064	U+0428	1096	U+0448	774	U+0306
UTF-8	208 168	D0 A8	209 136	D1 88	204 134	CC 86
Numeric character reference	Ш	Ш	ш	ш	̆	̆
Named character reference	Ш		ш
KOI8-R and KOI8-U	251	FB	219	DB
Code page 855	246	F6	245	F5
Code page 866	152	98	232	E8
Windows-1251	216	D8	248	F8
ISO-8859-5	200	C8	232	E8
Macintosh Cyrillic	152	98	248	F8

References

• Гулиа, Д. И.; Мачавариани, К. Д. (1892). Абхазская азбука (in Russian). Тифлис. GuliaMatchavariani1892.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ч̆оч̆уа, А. М. (1909). АБХАЗСКАЯ АЗБУКА (PDF) (in Russian). Тифлис. Tchotchoua1909.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Услар, Петр Карлович (1887). Этнография Кавказа, Языкознание. Vol. 1. Тифлис: Упр. Кавк. учеб. округа. Uslar1887.