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S-cedilla (majuscule: Ş, minuscule: ş) is a letter used in some of the Turkic languages. It occurs in the Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkish, and Turkmen alphabets. It is also planned to be in the Latin-based Kazakh alphabet. It is used in Brahui, [1] Chechen, Crimean Tatar, Kurdish, and Tatar as well, when they are written in the Latin alphabet.
This style of writing is called Biblical Uncial or Biblical Majuscule. New Testament uncials are distinct from other ancient texts based on the following differences: New Testament papyri – written on papyrus and generally more ancient; New Testament minuscules – written in minuscule letters and generally more recent
A unicase or unicameral alphabet is a writing script that has no separate cases for its letters. Arabic, Brahmic scripts like Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Devanagari, Hebrew, Iberian, Georgian, Chinese, Syriac, Thai and Hangul are unicase writing systems, while modern Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Armenian are bicameral, as they have two cases for each letter, e.g. B and b, Б and б ...
The Book of Kells, c. AD 800, is lettered in a script known as "insular majuscule", a variety of uncial script that originated in Ireland.. Uncial is a majuscule [1] script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. [2]
Insular half-uncial, or "Irish majuscule": the most formal; became reserved for rubrics (highlighted directions) and other displays after the 9th century. [2] Insular hybrid minuscule: the most formal of the minuscules, came to be used for formal church books when use of the "Irish majuscule" diminished. [2] Insular set minuscule
John 1:5b-10 in Codex Ebnerianus (Minuscule 105) from 12th century. A New Testament minuscule is a copy of a portion of the New Testament written in a small, cursive Greek script (developed from Uncial). [1] Below is the list of New Testament minuscules 1 to 1000. For other related lists, see: Lists of New Testament minuscules
List of New Testament Minuscules ordered by location and hosting institution: (*) Indicates only a portion of manuscript held by institution. (**) Indicates manuscript is a forgery.
G with hook (majuscule: Ɠ, minuscule: ɠ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet.In the International Phonetic Alphabet, its small caps form (U+029B ʛ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G WITH HOOK) represents the voiced uvular implosive and its lowercase form represents the voiced velar implosive.