The article on the Verdurian alphabet says that the letters for sh and ch were derived from a more ancient Cuezi letter.
Before this introduction, for this sound a ligature of s+c was used.
Do we know the form of this ligature? did it evolve in some other letter in the other scripts?
Medieval orthography
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- Avisaru
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you forgot this part, ExezWhen a y seemed to be needed; it was taken from Cuêzi; other writers, however, had resurrected the same letter (or perhaps developed it from s + c) to represent both š and č. Eventually this confusion was sorted out by modifying y in the direction of i to create a new letter i brevë for y. This freed up the chen to represent č; this letter in turn was flipped for š, and from this the creation of ež for ž (and j in languages which needed it) followed automatically.