Sho (letter)

Sho (letter)

Sho (Unicode|Ϸ) was a letter added to the Greek alphabet in order to write the Bactrian language [Everson, M. and Sims-Williams, N. (2002) “ [http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2411.pdf Proposal to add two Greek letters for Bactrian to the UCS] ”,ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2411.] . It probably represented a sound similar to English "sh" (IPA: IPA|/ʃ/). The name "sho" is modern; its Bactrian name is unknown, as is its order in the Bactrian alphabet.

It is similar in appearance to the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic Latin alphabet thorn (þ).

Computer encoding

Sho was added to Unicode in version 4.0 (2003), in an uppercase and lowercase character designed for modern typography.

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