Fita (letter)
Fita (Ѳ, ѳ) is a letter of old the Cyrillic alphabet, which derives from the Greek letter Thêta (Θ, θ).
This letter was mainly used to write proper names resulting from the Greek . The Slaves, which adopted this notation, pronounced it like a F , instead of the correct sound (as in the English think ), for example “Theodor” would be marked “Fyodor”. This letter making doubled bloom with the letter F of the Cyrillic alphabet (Ф, ф), it was removed in 1918.
Fita should not be confused with the vowel which resembles to him, marked Oe (Ө, ө), used to still today write the Kazakh and the Mongolian
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