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  2. Old English Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Of these letters, most were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters (Æ, Ð), and two developed from the runic alphabet (Ƿ, Þ). The letters Q and Z were essentially left unused outside of foreign names from Latin and Greek. The letter J had not yet come into use. The letter K was used by some writers but not ...

  3. Yogh - Wikipedia

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    The medieval author Orm used this letter in three ways when writing Early Middle English. By itself, it represented /j/, so he used this letter for the y in "yet". Doubled, it represented /i/, so he ended his spelling of "may" with two yoghs. Finally, the digraph of ȝh represented /ɣ/. [5]

  4. Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter W (originally a ligature of two V s) was added to the Latin alphabet, to represent sounds from the Germanic languages which did not exist in medieval Latin, and only after the Renaissance did the convention of treating I and U as vowels, and J and V as consonants, become established.

  5. 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'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.

  6. History of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The letter j is i with a flourish; u and v are the same letter in early scripts and varied according to position in insular half-uncial and caroline minuscule and later scripts; W is a ligature of vv; in Anglo-Saxon insular the rune wynn is used as a w and thorn (þ) for th.

  7. Runic (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    The distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph variant is somewhat problematic in the case of the runes; the reason is the high degree of variation of letter shapes in historical inscriptions, with many "characters" appearing in highly variant shapes, and many specific shapes taking the role of a number of different characters over the period of runic use (roughly the 3rd to 14th ...

  8. Medieval runes - Wikipedia

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    The medieval runes, or the futhork, was a Scandinavian runic alphabet that evolved from the Younger Futhark after the introduction of stung (or dotted) runes at the end of the Viking Age. These stung runes were regular runes with the addition of either a dot diacritic or bar diacritic to indicate that the rune stood for one of its secondary ...

  9. Template:Infobox medieval text - Wikipedia

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    | language = language(s) used by the text, e.g. Middle High German, Old Norse, Hiberno-Latin, etc. | date = (approximate) date of composition, or date range | date of issue = date when a law was promulgated, charter issued, etc. | provenance = place of origin, e.g. region or monastic house | state of existence = if appropriate, mark as ...