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Ȝ ȝ yogh, ȝogh or yoch / ˈjɒɡ / or / ˈjɒx /, used for various sounds derived from / ɡ /, such as / j / and / x /. Replaced by y, j [m], gh, and ch [n] now. ſ long s, an earlier form of the lowercase "s" that continued to be used alongside the modern lowercase s into the 1800s. Replaced by lowercase s now.
An alphabet is a standardized set of written letters that represent particular spoken sounds in a language. Specifically, letters correspond to phonemes, the categories of sounds that can distinguish one word from another in a given language.
Definition and usage. A letter is a type of grapheme, the smallest functional unit within a writing system. Letters are graphemes that broadly correspond to phonemes, the smallest functional units of sound in speech. Similarly to how phonemes are combined to form spoken words, letters may be combined to form written words.
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In the alphabet of Modern English, thorn (þ), eth (ð), wynn (ƿ), yogh ( ȝ ), ash (æ), and ethel (œ) do not exist. Latin borrowings reintroduced homographs of ash and ethel into Middle English and Early Modern English, though they are not thought to be the same letters [source?] but rather ligatures, and in any case are somewhat old-fashioned.
We Used to Be Friends: F, R, I, E, N, D, and S literally spelled "friends" as lowercase letters. Thanks to the actions of L and O, F was made a pariah by the other letters, and N was pressured into not standing up for him, leading to F's Face–Heel Turn .
The Semitic alphabet became the ancestor of multiple writing systems across the Middle East, Europe, northern Africa, and Pakistan, mainly through Ancient South Arabian, Phoenician and the closely related Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, and later Aramaic (derived from the Phoenician alphabet) and the Nabatean—derived from the Aramaic alphabet and ...
History. The earliest form of manuscript Cyrillic, known as ustav, was based on Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and by letters from the Glagolitic alphabet for consonants not found in Greek. [3] The Glagolitic alphabet was created by the monk Saint Cyril, possibly with the aid of his brother Saint Methodius, around 863. [3] .