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It is regarded as a variant of Z in Finnish. In Finnish, the letter ž is used in loan words, džonkki and maharadža, and in romanization of Russian and other non-Latin alphabets. In Finnish and Estonian, it is possible to replace ž with zh when it is technically impossible to typeset the accented character. [3]
Origin of the cedilla from the Visigothic z A conventional "ç" and 'modernist' cedilla "c̦" (right). (Helvetica and Akzidenz-Grotesk Book) The tail originated in Spain as the bottom half of a miniature cursive z. The word cedilla is the diminutive of the Old Spanish name for this letter, ceda (zeta). [1]
10 points: C ×1; The letters Q, X and Z are absent since these letters are very rare and only occur in foreign words. These letters and the foreign letters "Ä", "Ö" and "Ü", which are used in a few Norwegian words, can be played with a blank. C and W also occur only in foreign words, but they are not so rare, [35] so they were included.
Hebrew 3rd c. BCE Square Aramaic 2007; Pahlavi 3rd c. BCE Avestan 4th century; Palmyrene 2nd c. BCE; Nabataean 2nd c. BCE Arabic 4th century N'Ko 1949; Syriac 2nd c. BCE Sogdian 2nd c. BCE Old Turkic 6th century Old Hungarian c. 650; Old Uyghur. Mongolian 1204; Mandaic 2nd century; Greek 8th c. BCE Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Deseret 1854
no use of character c, w, z and x except for foreign proper nouns and some loanwords; two versions of the language: Bokmål (much closer to Danish) and Nynorsk – for example ikke, lørdag, Norge (Bokmål) vs. ikkje, laurdag, Noreg (Nynorsk); Nynorsk uses the word òg ; printed materials almost always published in Bokmål only;
German words which come from Latin words with c before e, i, y, ae, oe are usually pronounced with (/ts/) and spelled with z. The letter q in German only ever appears in the sequence qu ( /kv/ ), with the exception of loanwords, e.g., Coq au vin or Qigong (which is also written Chigong ).
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The English language uses many Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes.These roots are listed alphabetically on three pages: Greek and Latin roots from A to G; Greek and Latin roots from H to O