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Palochka (Ӏ) (ru: па́лочка, a stick) is a letter added to the Cyrillic alphabet when used in writing several Caucasian languages, such as Abaza, Adyghe, Avar, Chechen, Dargwa, Ingush, Kabardian, Lak, Lezgian and Tabassaran.
Palochka usually has no independent phonetic value, but is used to modify the reading of a preceding letter. It signals that a preceding consonant is an ejective. In some of the languages that use the palochka (Adyghe, Kabardian, Chechen, Ingush), it also functions as the glottal stop. Example from the Kabardian language: елъэӀуащ (IPA: jaɬa'ʔʷaːɕ, X-SAMPA: jaKa"?_wa:s\), he asked her for something.
It looks exactly like uppercase Latin letter I and has no lowercase form. As of 2004, palochka cannot be readily entered or displayed on most computer systems, so it is usually replaced with Latin letter I, or sometimes even with the digit 1, although technically this is incorrect. Example from the Avar language: кIалъазе (IPA: ka'ɬaze, X-SAMPA: k_>a"Kaze), to speak.
Code positions
Its HTML entities are: Ӏ or Ӏ.
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