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Dze ((unicode:Ѕ ѕ)) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used in the Macedonian language to represent the voiced alveolar affricate , pronounced like (ds) in "pods". It is derived from the letter ''dzelo'' or ''zelo'' of the Early Cyrillic alphabet, and it was used historically for Old Church Slavonic, Ukrainian, Russian, and Romanian. Although fully obsolete everywhere in the Cyrillic world by the 19th century, the letter ''zelo'' was revived in 1944 by the designers of the alphabet of the then-codified Macedonian language. As the Macedonian language is central to the Balkan Linguistic Union, the phonetical need for this individual letter is consistent with the phoneme's presence in Greek (τζ), and Albanian (x), both non-Slavic neighbours to the Macedonian language. In the early 21st century, the same letter also appeared in Vojislav Nikčević's proposal for the new alphabet for the modern Montenegrin language. The most common early letterform () resembles the Latin letter S (S s), but it is also seen reversed () like the Latin letter Reversed S (Ƨ ƨ), or with a tail and a tick (). The Abkhaz language includes a letter with an identical function and name, but different shape. See Abkhazian Dze for more information. ==Origin== The letter is descended from ''dzělo'' () in the Early Cyrillic alphabet, where it had the numerical value 6. The letter Dzělo was itself based on the letter Dzelo in the Glagolitic alphabet. In the Glagolitic alphabet, it was written , and had the numerical value of 8. In Old Church Slavonic it was called "(unicode:ѕѣло)" (pronounced ''dzeló''), and in Church Slavonic it is called "(unicode:ѕѣлѡ)" (pronounced ''zeló''). The origin of Glagolitic letter ''dzelo'' is unclear, but the Cyrillic Ѕ may have been influenced by the Greek , the medieval form of the archaic letter digamma, which had the same form and numerical value (6). Thus the visual similarity of the Cyrillic and Latin are largely coincidental. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dze」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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