Editing Shcha (section)

==History==
The Cyrillic letter Shcha was derived from the [[Glagolitic alphabet|Glagolitic]] letter Shta {{script|Glag|Ⱋ}} ([[Image:Glagolitic shta.svg|20px|]]).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Zhang |first1=Xiangning |last2=Zhang |first2=Ruolin |title=Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Economics, Social Science, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (ESSAEME 2018) |chapter=Evolution of Ancient Alphabet to Modern Greek, Latin and Cyrillic Alphabets and Transcription between Them |date=July 2018 |chapter-url=https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/essaeme-18/25900400 |language=en |publisher=Atlantis Press |pages=156–162 |doi=10.2991/essaeme-18.2018.30 |isbn=978-94-6252-549-8|doi-access=free }}</ref>

The name in the [[Early Cyrillic alphabet]] was {{Script|Cyrs|шта}} (''šta'') and is preserved in modern [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]]; it is pronounced {{lang|bg|штъ}}.

This letter was also used in [[Komi language|Komi]] {{IPA|/t͡ʃ/}} (⟨Ч⟩ was & still is used for /t͡ɕ/), which is now represented by the [[Digraph (orthography)|digraph]] {{angle bracket|тш}}.