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Although in English, the g is silent in gn, but in other languages, it is pronounced. Vowel letters above q meant qu + vowel: qͣ, qͤ, qͥ, qͦ, qͧ. a on r: rͣ – regula; o on m: mͦ – modo; Vowels were the most common superscripts, but consonants could be placed above letters without ascenders; the most common were c, e.g. nͨ.
Closed insular G Ormulum [18] /g/ Ɡ ɡ ᶢ Script G IPA [8] /g/ IPA voiced velar plosive ꬶ Script G with crossed-tail Teuthonista [4] 𝼁 Reversed script g extIPA [19] [20] extIPA voiced velodorsal plosive [19] [20] ɢ 𐞒 Small capital G IPA /ɢ/ IPA voiced uvular plosive; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] FUT /ɡ̥ ...
The lists and tables below summarize and compare the letter inventories of some of the Latin-script alphabets.In this article, the scope of the word "alphabet" is broadened to include letters with tone marks, and other diacritics used to represent a wide range of orthographic traditions, without regard to whether or how they are sequenced in their alphabet or the table.
Letters w and k, are rare and used only in loanwords, most often from Germanic languages (e.g whisky). Ligatures œ and æ are conventional but are rarely used (a few words are well known, e.g. œil, œuf(s), bœuf(s), most other are scientific/technical and borrowed from Latin). Words ending in -aux, -eux, or -oux.
Some letters are neither: for example, the letter denoting the glottal stop, ʔ , originally had the form of a question mark with the dot removed. A few letters, such as that of the voiced pharyngeal fricative, ʕ , were inspired by other writing systems (in this case, the Arabic letter ﻉ , ʿayn, via the reversed apostrophe). [9]
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]
Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by ...
G g: Latin letter G; H h: Latin letter H, romanized as in Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Rusyn; Z z: Latin letter Z, alternative form of italicized Cyrillic Г (ge) Ґ ґ: Cyrillic letter ghe with upturn, the letter g, named ge in Ukrainian; Ѓ ѓ: Cyrillic letter Gje; Ғ ғ: Cyrillic letter Ghayn; R r: Latin letter R (lowercase)