• The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken...
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    "western" ("red") type, the so-called Western Greek alphabet. Several Old Italic scripts, including the Latin alphabet, derived from it (or simultaneously...
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  • Old Italic is a Unicode block containing a unified repertoire of several Old Italic scripts used in various parts of Italy starting about 700 BCE, including...
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    languages, see Romance studies. Most Italic languages (including Romance) are generally written in Old Italic scripts (or the descendant Latin alphabet and...
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    Elder Futhark (redirect from Old Futhark)
    Futhark runes are commonly believed to originate in the Old Italic scripts: either a North Italic variant (Etruscan or Raetic alphabets), or the Latin alphabet...
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    ancient script of India, derived from Aramaic. Old Turkic runes (also called Orkhon runes Orkh 175) Old Hungarian runes (Hung 176). Old Italic alphabets...
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    Switzerland, Slovenia and western Austria, in two variants of the Old Italic scripts. Rhaetic is largely accepted as being closely related to Etruscan...
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    a number of Italic scripts derived from the western Greeks. Due to the cultural dominance of the Roman state, the other Old Italic scripts have not survived...
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    G (redirect from Script g)
    direct descendant of zeta. Zeta took shapes like ⊏ in some of the Old Italic scripts; the development of the monumental form 'G' from this shape would...
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    other. This script evolved into a variety of regional medieval scripts (for example, the Merovingian, Visigothic and Benevantan scripts), to be later...
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    Oscan language (redirect from Oscan script)
    was originally written in a specific "Oscan alphabet", one of the Old Italic scripts derived from (or cognate with) the Etruscan alphabet. Later inscriptions...
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  • Italy Italic languages, an Indo-European language family Old Italic alphabet, an alphabet of ancient Italy Italic script, a method of handwriting Italic type...
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  • Gaulish (category Articles containing Old Irish (to 900)-language text)
    tablets. Gaulish was first written in Greek script in southern France and in a variety of Old Italic script in northern Italy. After the Roman conquest...
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    language per the Vienna Literary Agreement. It served as one of the official scripts in the unified South Slavic state of Yugoslavia alongside Vuk's Cyrillic...
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    with the Old English language, which predates blackletter by many centuries and was written in the insular script or in Futhorc. Along with Italic type and...
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  • Lithuanian orthography (category Indo-European Latin-script orthographies)
    Lithuanian orthography employs a Latin-script alphabet of 32 letters, two of which denote sounds not native to the Lithuanian language. Additionally, it...
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    lit. 'All of the Sisters of the old City had seen the Birds'. Words from languages natively written with other scripts, such as Arabic or Chinese, are...
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  • Latvian orthography (category Indo-European Latin-script orthographies)
    The modern Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the pronunciation of the language. The standard alphabet...
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    E
    the letter epsilon, used to represent /e/. The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage. Although Middle English...
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    The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested...
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    the early Latin alphabet one among several Old Italic scripts emerging at the time. The early Latin script was heavily influenced by the then regionally...
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    i.e. lowercase italic Cyrillic ⟨т⟩, may look like small-capital italic ⟨T⟩. In Standard Serbian, as well as in Macedonian, some italic and cursive letters...
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  • ɵ 8, a common substitute for the ou-ligature ȣ 8, a letter in the Old Italic script (𐌚) with the value /f/ The Eight (novel), an American author Katherine...
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    In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as...
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    centuries secretary hand was slowly replaced by italic scripts, a semi-cursive group of scripts. Early italic hand, dating from the 15th century, was based...
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    in the 1930s for the Turkic languages. It replaced the Yaña imlâ Arabic script-based alphabet in 1928, and was replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet in 1938–1940...
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    three scripts, Mkhedruli, once the civilian royal script of the Kingdom of Georgia and mostly used for the royal charters, is now the standard script for...
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    abɛˈtséːda] or slovenska gajica [- ˈɡáːjitsa]) is an extension of the Latin script used to write Slovene. The standard language uses a Latin alphabet which...
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  • Czech orthography (category Indo-European Latin-script orthographies)
    formal writing (orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed to suit Czech was devised by Czech theologian and...
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    before the age of Classical Latin. A member of the Italic languages, it descends from a common Proto-Italic language; Latino-Faliscan is likely a separate...
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