Note: This article treats additional letter of the Greek alphabet. For the Latin letter used in Iceland and having a similar C-W communication, to see Thorn. ----

Sho (capital , tiny ) was a letter used to transcribe the Bactrien.

Linguistics

was used to transcribe the sound of a fricative Consonne post-alveolar deaf (noted in API, pronounced like French “CH”) in Bactrien, a Indo-Iranian Langue from now on extinct.

History

In -328, the Bactriane - country located in the North of the current Afghanistan - was conquered by the armies of Alexandre Large the. In -123, the area was conquered by the Yuezhi which decided to adopt the Greek alphabet to note the local language. The letter sho was created to transcribe a sound used in bactrien but which did not exist in Greek.

Data-processing representation

The letter has the representations Unicode following:

• Capital: U+03F7;
• Tiny: U+03F8;

See too

• additional Letters of the Greek alphabet

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