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The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of Old Church Slavonic. It has existed in its modern form since 1918 and has ...
May be sometimes omitted from the alphabet. Originated as a ligature between ѡ and т, however, it later gained its own spot in the alphabet and was preferred as a numeral for 800. [19] Ц ц: ци: ci c t͡s [t̪͡s̪] 900 Glagolitic Tsi Ⱌ See also: Ꙡ ꙡ. Ч ч: чьрвь: čĕrvĕ č ch [t͡ʃ] 90 Glagolitic Cherv Ⱍ worm
In this narrower sense, the first true alphabet would be the Greek alphabet, which was adapted from the Phoenician alphabet. Many linguists are skeptical of the value of wholly separating the two categories. Latin, the most widely used alphabet today, [7] in turn derives from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets, themselves derived from Phoenician.
The Early Cyrillic alphabet, which developed gradually in the Preslav Literary School by Greek alphabet scribes who incorporated some Glagolitic letters, gradually replaced Glagolitic in that region. Glagolitic remained in use alongside Latin in the Kingdom of Croatia and alongside Cyrillic until the 14th century in the Second Bulgarian Empire ...
The Euboean alphabet was used in the cities of Eretria and Chalcis and in related colonies in southern Italy, notably in Cumae, Pithecusae and Rhegion. It was through this variant that the Greek alphabet was transmitted to Italy, where it gave rise to the Old Italic alphabets, including Etruscan and ultimately the Latin alphabet. Some of the ...
The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language, the most recent development of Egyptian. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the uncial Greek alphabet , augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic .
An anthropomorphic lowercase alphabet climb up a coconut tree in order, but their increasing weight makes the tree lean over, causing everyone to fall out of it. Shortly after, the uppercase letters (depicted as their parental figures) rush to aid the lowercase letters and rescue them from the pile.
The Greek alphabet was developed during the Iron Age, centuries after the loss of Linear B, the syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek until the Late Bronze Age collapse and Greek Dark Age. This article concentrates on the development of the alphabet before the modern codification of the standard Greek alphabet.