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    how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to...
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  • Look up ligature in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ligature may refer to: Ligature (writing), a combination of two or more letters into a single symbol...
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    Æ (redirect from AE ligature)
    (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status...
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  • Stigma (ϛ) is a ligature of the Greek letters sigma (Σ) and tau (Τ), which was used in writing Greek between the Middle Ages and the 19th century. It is...
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  • In the Japanese writing system kana ligatures (Japanese: 合略仮名, Hepburn: gōryaku-gana) are ligatures in the kana writing system, both hiragana and katakana...
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    informal or decorative writing. The ligature is now mostly used in the context of the Latin alphabet, interpreted as a ligature of Latin o and u: for example...
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  • Glossary of mathematical symbols, Double tilde & Ampersand plus sign Ligature (writing) ⟨ ⟩ Angle brackets Bracket, Parenthesis, Greater-than sign, Less-than...
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    were used in the cursive writing style and very extensively in later minuscule writing. There were dozens of conventional ligatures. Some of them stood for...
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    Œ (redirect from OE ligature)
    Œ (minuscule: œ) is a Latin alphabet grapheme, a ligature of o and e. In medieval and early modern Latin, it was used in borrowings from Greek that originally...
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  • Ampersand (category Latin-script ligatures)
    the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters of the word et (Latin for "and"). Ampersand: the sign &;...
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    which allows a complete control of kerning. Hz-program Letter spacing Ligature (writing) Typeface anatomy Word spacing "Fonts : Type topics: Glossary". Adobe...
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    IJ (digraph) (redirect from IJ (ligature))
    i and j. Occurring in the Dutch language, it is sometimes considered a ligature, or a letter in itself. In most fonts that have a separate character for...
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  • used together to represent a single sound, such as "nq" in Hmong RPA Ligature (writing), the joining of two letters as a single glyph, such as "æ" Digraph...
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    letter combinations are written as ligatures (special shapes), notably lām-alif لا, which is the only mandatory ligature (the unligated combination ل‍‌‍ا...
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  • a letter Glyph – Purposeful written mark History of the alphabet Ligature (writing) – Glyph combining two or more letterforms Orthography – Set of conventions...
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    Ӕ (Cyrillic) (category Cyrillic ligatures)
    the 1892 Dargwa alphabet and the 1875 Tabasaran alphabet. Latin Æ Ligature (writing) "Ossetian – ISO 9 transliteration system". Transliteration. Retrieved...
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    Cursive (redirect from Cursive writing)
    known as the 'Modi' script, used to write the Marathi language. Ligature is writing the letters of words with lines connecting the letters so that one...
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    ß (category Latin-script ligatures)
    in late medieval and early modern German orthography, represented as a ligature of ⟨ſ⟩ (long s) and ⟨ʒ⟩ (tailed z) in blackletter typefaces, yielding ⟨ſʒ⟩...
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  • forms are called tie, double breve, enotikon or papyrological hyphen, ligature tie, and undertie. In the ALA-LC romanization for Russian, a tie symbol...
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  • letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms. In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters...
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    needed] used in formal writing for certain words of Greek or Latin origin, such as encyclopædia and cœlom, although such ligatures were not used in either...
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    Tamil script (redirect from Tamil writing)
    unlike other Brahmi scripts, the Tamil script rarely uses typographic ligatures to represent conjunct consonants, which are far less frequent in Tamil...
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    in Natsilingmiutut as ŋ ᖖ is a ᓐᓐᒡ ligature in most areas but either a ᓐᓐᒃ ligature or a doubled ᓐᒃ (ᓐᒃᓐᒃ) ligature in Nunavik (which may resemble ᓐ8 or...
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    notes on usage. Only found in Old Coptic texts. Alternatively, ϯ may be a ligature of ⲧ and ⲓ. The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799. It is inscribed with...
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    Alphabet (redirect from Alphabetic writing)
    used for religious texts. Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet have ligatures, a combination of two letters make one, such as æ in Danish and Icelandic...
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    consonant letters, where two or more letters are graphically joined in a ligature, or otherwise change their shapes. Rarely, one of the consonants may be...
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    Cuneiform (redirect from Cuneiform writing)
    five to ten wedges, while complex ligatures can consist of twenty or more (although it is not always clear if a ligature should be considered a single sign...
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  • palæography, with the ligature æ. Several consonant-consonant ligatures are used commonly even in the new orthography. The ligature mpa മ്പ was historically...
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  • used in many languages to represent the word and, originally a stylized ligature of the Latin word et. Other typographical examples include ⟨§⟩ 'section'...
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    Greek minuscule (category Writing systems)
    style of uncial writing, from which it differed in using smaller, more rounded and more connected letter forms, and in using many ligatures. Many of these...
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