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Latin letter W with acute accent

W with acute
Ẃ ẃ
Usage
Writing system Latin script
Type Alphabetic
Language of origin Lower Sorbian (obsolete)Middle Polish (obsolete)Welsh language
Sound values [vʲ] (formerly)
In Unicode U+1E82, U+1E83
History
Development Ẃ ẃ
Other
Writing direction Left-to-Right
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W with acute (majuscule: Ẃ, minuscule: ẃ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the acute diacritic over the letter W. In the past, it was used in Lower Sorbian and Middle Polish.[1][2][3] Now it is used in the Welsh orthography as an accented form of w, e. g. gẃraidd 'manly'.

The letter appeared in the alphabet made by Jan Kochanowski for Middle Polish, which was used from 16th until 18th century. It represented the palatalizated voiced labiodental fricative (vʲ) sound.[1][2] It also was used in Lower Sorbian.[3]

Character information

Preview Ẃ ẃ
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH ACUTE LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH ACUTE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 7810 U+1E82 7811 U+1E83
UTF-8 225 186 130 E1 BA 82 225 186 131 E1 BA 83
Numeric character reference Ẃ Ẃ ẃ ẃ
  1. ^ a b "Skąd się wzięły znaki diakrytyczne?". 2plus3d.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2021-04-21. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  2. ^ a b "Bon ton Ę-Ą. Aby pismo było polskie". idb.neon24.pl (in Polish).
  3. ^ a b Georg Kral, Grammatik der Wendischen Sprache in der Oberlausitz