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  2. Ʊ - Wikipedia

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    Shapes of horseshoe as designed for the African reference alphabet, clearly based on a serifed shape of the Latin capital U. The letter Ʊ (minuscule: ʊ), called horseshoe or sometimes bucket, inverted omega or Latin upsilon, is a letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet used to transcribe a near-close near-back rounded vowel.

  3. Upsilon - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Greek alphabet - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    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.

  6. List of Greek letters - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Archaic Greek alphabets - Wikipedia

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    In addition, the red alphabet also introduced letters for the aspirates, Φ = /pʰ/ and Ψ = /kʰ/. Note that the use of Χ in the "red" set corresponds to the letter "X" in Latin, while it differs from the later standard Greek alphabet, where Χ stands for /kʰ/, and Ψ stands for /ps/. Only Φ for /pʰ/ is common to all non-green alphabets.

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  9. Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    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.