B with acute
B́ b́
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
Other
Writing directionLeft-to-Right

B with acute (uppercase: , lowercase: ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the acute accent over the letter B. It is used in Ntcham and Shinasha, and Võro. It was also formerly used in Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian and Polish.[1][2]

Usage

In Ntcham and Shinasha, <b́> is used to represent the phoneme /b/ with a high tone.[3][4]

In Võro, the letter represents the palatalized voiced bilabial plosive /bʲ/. The letter was previously used for the same phoneme in the Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian languages, where it was replaced by the digraph <bj> as part of a 1948 orthographic reform, as well as in Jan Kochanowski's proposed 16th-century orthography for Polish.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Skąd się wzięły znaki diakrytyczne?". 2plus3d.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2021-04-21. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
  2. ^ a b "Bon ton Ę-Ą. Aby pismo było polskie". idb.neon24.pl (in Polish).
  3. ^ Gnonwaye, Djéri; Ninkabou, Waké; Poadi, Jonas (2013). "Guide de transition français – ncam". Association Chrétienne des Eglises de Bassar (in French).
  4. ^ Joswig, Andreas (2008). "A Brief Grammar of the Borna Language". SIL Ethiopia.