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U+2C31, ⰱ
GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER BUKY

[U+2C30]
Glagolitic
[U+2C32]

Translingual

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Etymology

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Source unknown.[1] Possibly Hebrew בּ (bet)[2] or Aramaic ܒ (bīt).[3] Samaritan (mim) is similar in appearance, but mirrored.

Letter

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buky

  1. The second letter of the Glagolitic alphabet.
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  • Upper case:

References

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  1. ^ Schenker, Alexander M. (1995) “Early writing”, in The Dawn of Slavic: An introduction to Slavic philology, New Haven, CT/London, UK: Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 168–172
  2. ^ Ilievski, Petar H.R. (2002) “Glagolica: An iconic script for visual evangelic preaching”, in Illinois Classical Studies[1], volumes 27–28, →ISSN, →JSTOR, archived from the original on 2020-10-03, pages 153–164
  3. ^ Jung, Hakyung (2013 January) “On the origin of the Glagolitic alphabet”, in Scripta[2], volume 5, archived from the original on 2021-10-07, pages 105–130