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  2. List of Latin-script digraphs - Wikipedia

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    ff , which may be written as the typographic ligature ff , is used in English and Cornish [4] for the same sound as single f , /f/. The doubling is used to indicate that the preceding vowel is (historically) short, or for etymological reasons, in latinisms .

  3. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of letters of the Latin script.The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'.

  4. Word-initial ff - Wikipedia

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    The English legal handwriting of the Middle Ages has no capital F. A double f (ff) was used to represent the capital letter. In transcribing, I should write F, not ff; e. g. Fiske, not ffiske. The replacement of manuscript word-initial ff by F is now a scholarly convention. [3] Usage in names such as Charles ffoulkes and Richard ffrench ...

  5. Ululation - Wikipedia

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    Ululation (/ ˌ j uː lj ʊ ˈ l eɪ ʃ ən, ˌ ʌ l-/ ⓘ, [1] [2] from Latin ululo), trilling or lele, is a long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound resembling a howl with a trilling quality. It is produced by emitting a high pitched loud voice accompanied with a rapid back and forth movement of the tongue and the uvula .

  6. Ghayn - Wikipedia

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    It represents the sound /ɣ/ or /ʁ/. In name and shape, it is a variant of ʻayn (ع ‎). Its numerical value is 1000 (see Abjad numerals). In the Persian language, it represents ~ and is the twenty-second letter in the new Persian alphabet. Ghayn is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:

  7. Yat - Wikipedia

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    Some other sounds also evolved to the sound /i/ so that some Ukrainian texts from between the 17th and 19th centuries used the same letter ( и or yat) uniformly rather than variation between yat, new yat, и , and reflex of о in closed syllables, but using yat to unify all i-sounded vowels was less common, and so 'new yat' usually means ...

  8. F - Wikipedia

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    This sound is usually considered to be an allophone of /h/, which is pronounced in different ways depending upon its context; Japanese /h/ is pronounced as [ɸ] before /u/. In Welsh orthography, f represents /v/ while ff represents /f/. In Slavic languages, f is used primarily in words of foreign (Hellenic, Romance, or Germanic) origin.

  9. ß - Wikipedia

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    By the late 1400s, the choice of spelling between sz and ss was usually based on the sound's position in the word rather than etymology: sz ( ſz ) tended to be used in word final position: uſz (Middle High German: ûz, German: aus), -nüſz (Middle High German: -nüss(e), German: -nis); ss ( ſſ ) tended to be used when the sound occurred ...