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  2. Numeral prefix - Wikipedia

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    Because of the common inheritance of Greek and Latin roots across the Romance languages, the import of much of that derived vocabulary into non-Romance languages (such as into English via Norman French), and the borrowing of 19th and 20th century coinages into many languages, the same numerical prefixes occur in many languages.

  3. List of Latin-script digraphs - Wikipedia

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    In French, it represents /ɑ̃/ in lieu of an before b, m, p . âm is used in Portuguese for a stressed /ɐ̃/ before a consonant. an is used in many languages to write a nasal vowel. In Portuguese it is used for /ɐ̃/ before a consonant. In French it represents /ɑ̃/ (/an/ before a vowel).

  4. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Can be notated with the digits 0–9 and the cased letters A–Z and a–z of the English alphabet. 64: Tetrasexagesimal: I Ching in China. This system is conveniently coded into ASCII by using the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet in both upper and lower case (52 total) plus 10 numerals (62 total) and then adding two special characters (+ and ...

  5. Latin numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Latin numerals are the words used to denote numbers within the Latin language. They are essentially based on their Proto-Indo-European ancestors, and the Latin cardinal numbers are largely sustained in the Romance languages. In Antiquity and during the Middle Ages they were usually represented by Roman numerals in writing.

  6. List of Latin-script alphabets - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

  8. Latin phonology and orthography - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, the short vowel and /n/ were restored, for example, in French enseigne and enfant from insignia and infantem (e is the normal development of Latin short i), likely by analogy with other forms beginning in the prefix in-. [43]

  9. Latin letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    the unit prefix quetta-(10 30) [23] heat energy [22]: 6 electroweak charge, denoted Q W [10] Reactive power in electrical engineering; Volumetric flow rate; represents the rational numbers; q represents: the unit prefix quecto-(10 −30) [23] a second prime number; the denominator of a fraction; the quotient resulting from integer division