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The Roman Emperor Claudius proposed introducing a new letter into the Latin alphabet to transcribe the so-called sonus medius (a short vowel before labial consonants), but in inscriptions, the new letter was sometimes used for Greek upsilon instead.
In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants, but, by the end of the 4th century BC, the Ionic-based Euclidean alphabet, with 24 letters, ordered from alpha to omega, had become standard throughout the Greek-speaking world [6] and is the version that is still used for Greek writing today.
The Bayer designation naming scheme for stars typically uses the first Greek letter, α, for the brightest star in each constellation, and runs through the alphabet before switching to Latin letters. In mathematical finance , the Greeks are the variables denoted by Greek letters used to describe the risk of certain investments.
Upsilon with breve: Archaic letter denoting a short vowel Χ̇χ̇: Chi with dot above: Arvanitika letter for /xʲ/ [7] Ψ̌ψ̌: Psi with caron: Nonstandard letter for Cypriot Greek [9] and Pontic Greek [10] representing /pʃ/ Ώώ: Omega with acute: High pitch on short vowel or rising pitch on long vowel Ὼὼ: Omega with grave
LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E ɣ: gamma: voiced velar fricative: LATIN SMALL LETTER GAMMA θ: theta: voiceless dental fricative: GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA χ: chi: voiceless uvular fricative: GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI ɸ: phi [1] voiceless bilabial fricative: LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI ʊ: upsilon [2] near-close near-back rounded vowel: LATIN SMALL LETTER ...
Phi (/ f aɪ /; [1] uppercase Φ, lowercase φ or ϕ; Ancient Greek: ϕεῖ pheî; Modern Greek: φι fi) is the twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet. In Archaic and Classical Greek (c. 9th to 4th century BC), it represented an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive ( [pʰ] ), which was the origin of its usual romanization as ph .
Omega ɷ 𐞤 Closed omega Obsolete IPA /ʊ/ Obsolete IPA near-close near-back rounded vowel alternative symbol used until 1989; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] Ȣ ȣ: Ou Ligature of Latin o and u ᴕ ᴽ: Small capital Ou FUT [2] a back vowel of uncertain quality: ᴘ: Small capital P ꟼ Epigraphic letter reversed P ɸ ...
The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin alphabet, such as the English alphabet.