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Four letters of the Latin alphabet arose from it: and U, Y and, much later, V and W. In the Cyrillic script , the letters U (У, у) and izhitsa (Ѵ, ѵ) arose from it. In some languages, including German and Portuguese , the name upsilon ( Ypsilon in German, ípsilon in Portuguese) is used to refer to the Latin letter Y as well as the Greek ...
Small capital I with stroke IPA Oxford University Press dictionary convention English /ɨ/ or /ə/ Ɩ ɩ ᶥ Iota Bissa, Kabye; cf. Greek: Ɩ ɩ: J ȷ Dotless j Old High German: ᴊ: Small capital J FUT [2] K: Kelvin sign Kelvin unit of measure temperature; character decomposition is a capital K ᴋ: Small capital K FUT [2] Ʞ ʞ: Turned K IPA ...
The ISO basic Latin alphabet is an international standard (beginning with ISO/IEC 646) for a Latin-script alphabet that consists of two sets (uppercase and lowercase) of 26 letters, codified in [1] various national and international standards and used widely in international communication.
Old Roman cursive script, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting used for writing letters, by merchants writing business accounts, by schoolchildren learning the Latin alphabet, and even emperors issuing commands.
The standard modern Russian Cyrillic cursive alphabet with uppercase and lowercase letters, used in school education. The Russian Cursive Cyrillic alphabet is used (instead of the block letters) when handwriting the modern Russian language. While several letters resemble Latin counterparts, many of them represent different sounds.
Script capital B 212C ℭ: Black-letter capital C 212D ℮ Estimated symbol: 212E ℯ: Script small E 212F ℰ: Script capital E 2130 ℱ: Script capital F 2131 Ⅎ Turned capital F 2132 ℳ: Script capital M 2133 ℴ: Script small O 2134 ℵ: Alef symbol 2135 ℶ: Bet symbol 2136 ℷ: Gimel symbol 2137 ℸ: Dalet symbol 2138 ℹ: Information ...
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. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the ...
In English, the letter u has four main pronunciations. There are "long" and "short" pronunciations. Short u , found originally in closed syllables, most commonly represents /ʌ/ (as in 'duck'), though it retains its old pronunciation /ʊ/ after labial consonants in some words (as in 'put') and occasionally elsewhere (as in 'sugar').