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Cyrillic Palochka
Unicode (hex)
majuscule: U+04C0
minuscule: U+04CF
Cyrillic alphabet
А	Б	В	Г	Ґ	Д	Ђ
Ѓ	Е	Ѐ	Ё	Є	Ж	З
Ѕ	И	Ѝ	І	Ї	Й	Ј
К	Л	Љ	М	Н	Њ	О
П	Р	С	Т	Ћ	Ќ	У
Ў	Ф	Х	Ц	Ч	Џ	Ш
Щ	Ъ	Ы	Ь	Э	Ю	Я
Non-Slavic letters
Ӑ	Ӓ	Ә	Ӛ	Ӕ	Ғ	Ҕ
Ӻ	Ӷ	Ԁ	Ԃ	Ӗ	Ӂ	Җ
Ӝ	Ԅ	Ҙ	Ӟ	Ԑ	Ӡ	Ԇ
Ӣ	Ҋ	Ӥ	Қ	Ӄ	Ҡ	Ҟ
Ҝ	Ԟ	Ԛ	Ӆ	Ԓ	Ԡ	Ԉ
Ԕ	Ӎ	Ӊ	Ң	Ӈ	Ҥ	Ԣ
Ԋ	Ӧ	Ө	Ӫ	Ҩ	Ҧ	Ҏ
Ԗ	Ҫ	Ԍ	Ҭ	Ԏ	Ӯ	Ӱ
Ӳ	Ү	Ұ	Ҳ	Ӽ	Ӿ	Һ
Ҵ	Ҷ	Ӵ	Ӌ	Ҹ	Ҽ	Ҿ
Ӹ	Ҍ	Ӭ	Ԙ	Ԝ	Ӏ
Archaic letters
Ҁ	Ѻ	ОУ	Ѡ	Ѿ	Ѣ	Ꙓ
Ꙗ	Ѥ	Ѧ	Ѫ	Ѩ	Ѭ	Ѯ
Ѱ	Ѳ	Ѵ	Ѷ	Ꙟ
List of Cyrillic letters
Cyrillic digraphs

Palochka or Páločka (majuscule: Ӏ, minuscule: ӏ, Russian: 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. Example from the Avar language: кӀалъазе (pronounced [kʼaˈɬaze]) to speak. 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 ([jaɬaˈʔʷaːɕ]), he asked her for something. In Chechen, it represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative (ʕ).

It looks exactly like uppercase Latin letter I and uppercase Ukrainian I. The minuscule form of palochka was not encoded until Unicode 5.0. As of 2004, palochka is still not present in standard keyboard layouts or common fonts, and so cannot be easily entered or reliably displayed on many computer systems. It is usually replaced with Latin letters I or l, or sometimes (in chats or forums, for example) even with the digit 1.

In the days of the mechanical typewriter, this letter was the Roman numeral I, which was included on most Cyrillic typewriters for use in typing dates (e.g., 25.XII.1953 г.).

Code positions

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Translingual

Etymology

From the Roman numeral I that was furnished on most Russian manual typewriters. This letter also did duty for the numeral 1.

Letter

Ӏ (has no distinct upper- or lowercase forms)

1. palochka (the name of this letter in English)
2. The fifty-third letter of the Kabardian Cyrillic alphabet. It also provides the first or second component in a number of Kabardian digraphs and trigraphs. Its Kabardian name is ’ə and it represents a glottal stop. It is preceded by я and followed by the digraph Ӏу. Example: ищӀэн (jəɕ’án, “he knew it”).
3. In the Avar Cyrillic alphabet, it is not an independent letter, but is combined with various consonants, such as гӀ, кӀ, лӀ, тӀ, хӀ, цӀ, чӀ (pronounced ʕ, kʼ, tɬʼ, tʼ, ħ, ʦʼ, and ʧʼ).
4. The palochka is also found in the Cyrillic alphabets of Abaza, Adyghe, Chechen, Dargwa, Ingush, Lak, Lezgi, and Tabasaran.

Usage notes

Often the capital Roman letter I or the numeral 1 is used instead of the Ӏ symbol. In some of these languages, such as Chechen, national keyboards still do not provide the Ӏ symbol, and the Roman letter or the numeral are in standard use.

See also

• Wikipedia article on the palochka
• Wikipedia article on the Cyrillic alphabet