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Small capital I IPA /ɪ/ IPA near-close near-front unrounded vowel, capital form used in Unifon and for Gabonese orthographies [23] ꟾ Epigraphic letter I Longa Latin long i /iː/ in epigraphic style ꟷ Sideways I Epigraphic variant of I used in early medieval Celtic inscriptions [8] ᴉ ᵎ: Turned i FUT [2] ᵻ ᶧ Small capital I with stroke
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 ...
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 lowercase letter z: In the cursive style used in the United States and most Australian states (excluding South Australia), this letter is written as an ezh (ʒ). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The parts of Europe that add a crossbar to the uppercase Z may also use it the lowercase version.
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.
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.
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.
The lowercase letters evolved through cursive styles that developed to adapt the inscribed alphabet to being written with a pen. Over the ages many dissimilar stylistic forms of each letter evolved but, when not becoming a recognised subform to transliterate exotic tongues, denoted the same letter.