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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Etruscan alphabet (redirect from Etruscan script)
"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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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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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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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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CAPITAL REVERSED DOTTED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL. Sigma was adopted in the Old Italic alphabets beginning in the 8th century BC. At that time a simplified three-stroke...
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Greek alphabet (redirect from Greek script)
pre-Greek local scripts. They were in use c. 800–300 BC until all the Anatolian languages were extinct due to Hellenization. The original Old Italic alphabets...
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Character 'MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL TAU' (U+1D6F5)". FileFormat.Info. Retrieved 2017-10-28. "Unicode Character 'MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL TAU' (U+1D70F)"...
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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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The Western letter (expressing /kʰ/, later /x/) was adopted into the Old Italic alphabets, and its shape is also continued into the Algiz rune <ᛉ> of...
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Eta (section Cyrillic script)
function, it was borrowed in the 8th century BC by the Etruscan and other Old Italic alphabets, which were based on the Euboean form of the Greek alphabet...
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with this consonantal sound value, and Hēta was its original name. The Italic alphabets, and ultimately Latin, adopted the letter H from this Greek usage...
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L-shape (𐌋). Letters that arose from the Greek gamma include Etruscan (Old Italic) 𐌂, Roman C and G, Runic kaunan ᚲ, Gothic geuua 𐌲, the Coptic Ⲅ, and...
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Latin alphabet (redirect from Old Latin alphabet)
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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examples follow below at Mathematics and Science. U+03D1 ϑ GREEK THETA SYMBOL (script theta) is also common in biblical and theological usage e.g. πρόϑεσις (prothesis)...
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before back vowels Ο, Υ and Ω. In this function, it was borrowed into the Italic alphabets and ultimately into Latin. However, as the sound /k/ had two redundant...
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languages that use the Latin alphabet. Chi was also included in the Cyrillic script as the letter Х, with the phonetic value /x/ or /h/. In the International...
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∏) U+1D28 ᴨ GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL PI U+1D70B 𝜋 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL PI U+1D6D1 𝛑 MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL PI. Greek / Coptic Pi Mathematical...
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local scripts of archaic Greece. Oxford: Clarendon. pp. 63–64. Jeffery, Local scripts, p. 24. Jeffery, Local scripts, p. 114. Jeffery, Local scripts, p....
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in its archaic forms (, , ). Outside Greece, San was borrowed into the Old Italic alphabets (𐌑, transcribed as Ś). It initially retained its M-shape in...
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that begin with hyper- and hypo-. This rough breathing was derived from an older pronunciation that used a sibilant instead; this sibilant was not lost in...
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History of writing (redirect from Neolithic script)
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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Numerals ϛ (6) ϟ (90) ϡ (900) Use in other languages Bactrian Coptic Albanian Old Italic scripts Related topics Use as scientific symbols Category v t e...
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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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ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0. "The Greek Alphabet". Anne Jeffery (1961), The local scripts of archaic Greece, p.37–38. Herbert Weir Smyth. A Greek Grammar for Colleges...
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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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Ancient Greek (redirect from Old Greek language)
Cambridge University Press, 2007. Easterling, P and Handley, C. Greek Scripts: An Illustrated Introduction. London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic...
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Archaic Greek alphabets (redirect from Old Attic alphabet)
the Greek alphabet was transmitted to Italy, where it gave rise to the Old Italic alphabets, including Etruscan and ultimately the Latin alphabet. Some...
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