Palochka
| Palochka | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ӏ ӏ | |||
| 1 | |||
| Usage | |||
| Writing system | Cyrillic | ||
| Type | Alphabetic | ||
| Language of origin | Languages of the Caucasus | ||
| Sound values | [ʔ], [ʕ], [ʔ], [ˁ], [ʼ] | ||
| In Unicode | U+04C0, U+04CF | ||
| History | |||
| Development |
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| Time period | late 1930s–present | ||
| Variations | 1 | ||
| Other | |||
| Writing direction | left-to-right | ||
The palochka (Ӏ ӏ; italic: Ӏ ӏ) is a letter in the Cyrillic script. The letter is usually caseless. It was introduced in the late 1930s as the Hindu-Arabic digit '1', and on Cyrillic keyboards, it is usually typeset as the Roman numeral 'I'. Unicode currently supports both caseless/capital palochka at U+04C0 and a rarer lower-case palochka at U+04CF. The palochka marks glottal(ized) and pharyngeal(ized) consonants.