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CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH MIDDLE HOOK 0495: ҕ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH MIDDLE HOOK Used in Yakut, as well as inolder orthographies for Abkhaz. 0496: Җ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER 0497: җ: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE WITH DESCENDER Dungan, Kalmyk, Tatar, Turkmen 0498: Ҙ: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZE WITH DESCENDER ...
The Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / ⓘ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by ...
Vietnamese uses 22 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.The four remaining letters are not considered part of the Vietnamese alphabet although they are used to write loanwords, languages of other ethnic groups in the country based on Vietnamese phonetics to differentiate the meanings or even Vietnamese dialects, for example: dz or z for southerner pronunciation of v in standard Vietnamese.
The Brahmi script also evolved into the Nagari script, which in turn evolved into Devanagari and Nandinagari. Both were used to write Sanskrit, until the latter was merged into the former. The resulting script is widely adopted across India to write Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi and its dialects, and Konkani.
The script is known by a wide variety of names. As it was derived from the Old Uyghur alphabet, the Mongol script is known as the Uighur(-)Mongol script. [note 3] From 1941 onwards, it became known as the Old Script, [note 4] in contrast to the New Script, [note 5] referring to Cyrillic.
Die Hard is an American action film series that originated with Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever.All five films revolve around the main character of John McClane (Joe Leland in the original novel), a police detective who continually finds himself in the middle of a crisis where he is both the only hope against disaster and the culprit's target.
Williamson's script drew upon many of his favorite horror films, such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, Prom Night (both 1980), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). [29] At the time, the successful slasher films of the 1970s and 1980s had fallen out of favor, in part because of increasingly poorly received sequels to long-running horror franchises.