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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 December 2024. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...
The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the centuries that followed, various letters entered or fell out of use.
The Cyrillic alphabet and Russian spelling generally employ fewer diacritics than those used in other European languages written with the Latin alphabet. The only diacritic, in the proper sense, is the acute accent ́ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a vowel, as it is done in Spanish and Greek.
The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the theologians Cyril and Methodius. It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian.
Gabon Languages Scientific Alphabet ; cf. Greek Β β: ᴄ: Small capital C FUT [2] /t̬͡s/ Ↄ ↄ Reversed C Claudian letters [9] /(b~p)s/ Ꭓ ꭓ Chi Nonstandard IPA /χ/ Lepsius Standard Alphabet /x/ Teuthonista [4] /ç/ or /ʝ/ ꭕ Chi with low left serif ꭔ Chi with low right ring Ð ð ᶞ Eth IPA /ð/ See also Elfdalian, African ...
This letter was probably not present in the original Cyrillic alphabet. [1] Ѥ ѥ: ѥ: je je i͡e [jɛ] І-Є ligature This letter was probably not present in the original Cyrillic alphabet. [1] Ю ю: ю: ju ju i͡u [ju] І-ОУ ligature, dropping У There was no [jo] sound in early Slavic, so І-ОУ did not need to be distinguished from І-О.
The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. It does not have case. Five letters have different forms when used at the end of a word. Hebrew is written from right to left. Originally, the alphabet was an abjad consisting only of consonants, but is now considered an "impure abjad".
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").