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In typography, the long s is known as a type of swash letter, commonly referred to as a "swash s ". [2] The long s is the basis of the first half of the grapheme of the German alphabet ligature letter ß , [3] ( eszett or scharfes s, 'sharp s '). As with other letters, the long s may have a variant appearance depending on typeface: ſ, ſ, ſ, ſ .
Ñ, or ñ (Spanish: eñe, ⓘ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]
For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.
Former letter of the English, German, Sorbian, and Latvian alphabets Ꟊ ꟊ S with short stroke overlay: Used for tau gallicum in Gaulish [10] Ꞅ ꞅ Insular S: Variant of s [9] [3] Ƨ ƨ: Reversed S (=Tone two) A letter used in the Zhuang language from 1957 to 1986 to indicate its second tone, cf. Cyrillic: Ꙅ ꙅ ꜱ Small capital S ...
Æ in Helveticaand BodoniÆ alone and in context. Æ(lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters aand e, originally a ligaturerepresenting the Latindiphthongae. It has been promoted to the status of a letterin some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese.
In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett ( IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt], S-Z) or scharfes S ( IPA: [ˌʃaʁfəs ˈʔɛs], "sharp S"), represents the / s / phoneme in Standard German when following long vowels and diphthongs. The letter-name Eszett combines the names of the letters of s ( Es) and z ( Zett) in German.
Eth in Arial and Times New Roman. Eth ( / ɛð / edh, uppercase: Ð, lowercase: ð; also spelled edh or eð ), known as ðæt in Old English, [ 1] is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd ), and Elfdalian. It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced ...
Ö, or ö, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter "o" modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. Ö, or ö, is a variant of the letter O. In many languages, the letter "ö", or the "o" modified with an umlaut, is used to denote the close- or open-mid front rounded vowels [ ø] ⓘ or [ œ