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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to systematically write vowels as well as consonants. [5]
Beta (UK: / ˈ b iː t ə /, US: / ˈ b eɪ t ə /; uppercase Β, lowercase β, or cursive ϐ; Ancient Greek: βῆτα, romanized: bē̂ta or Greek: βήτα, romanized: víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet.
a beta particle (e − or e +) the beta brain wave in brain or cognitive sciences [9] ecliptic latitude in astronomy [10] the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure in plasma physics [11] β-reduction in lambda calculus; the ratio of the velocity of an object to the speed of light as used in the Lorentz factor [12]
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]
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The grammarians Dionysius Thrax [2] and Dionysius of Halicarnassus class ζ with the "double" (διπλᾶ) letters ψ, ξ and analyse it as σ + δ. Contra: The Roman grammarian Verrius Flaccus believed in the opposite sequence, δ + σ (in Velius Longus , De orthogr . 51), and Aristotle says that it was a matter of dispute ( Metaph . 993a ...
The vast Côtes du Rhône region encompasses nearly 86,000 acres of vines and produces about two-thirds of all Rhône Valley wine, by far more than any other appellation.
ISO 639 is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in part two of the standard, [1] including the corresponding two-letter codes where they exist.