Home›Open Questions›Is shta a ligature built inside Cyrillic, or a Glagolitic sign redrawn?Open QuestionsIs shta a ligature built inside Cyrillic, or a Glagolitic sign redrawn?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Is shta a ligature built inside Cyrillic, or a Glagolitic sign redrawn?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/is-shta-a-ligature-built-inside-cyrillic-or-a-glagolitic-sign-redrawn.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Is shta a ligature built inside Cyrillic, or a Glagolitic sign redrawn?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/is-shta-a-ligature-built-inside-cyrillic-or-a-glagolitic-sign-redrawnCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-is-shta-a-ligature-built-inside-cyrillic, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Is shta a ligature built inside Cyrillic, or a Glagolitic sign redrawn?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/is-shta-a-ligature-built-inside-cyrillic-or-a-glagolitic-sign-redrawn}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe letter is plainly built on sha. Whether the element below it is the letter tverdo, making the letter a Cyrillic ligature, or whether the whole sign was taken from the Glagolitic letter for the same cluster and redrawn to match sha, is argued. Both accounts are current and the shape is compatible with either.What would resolve this A close comparison of the earliest attested forms of the letter across the recensions, looking for a period or region in which the two elements are still drawn separately, which would settle the ligature reading, or for early forms too remote from sha and tverdo to be a ligature at all.OpenSlavic palaeographyDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First EditionCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnShta Щ, Alphabet Letters Well-attested Source Divinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1SourcesDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year