Beta (UK: / ˈ b iː t ə /, US: / ˈ b eɪ t ə /; uppercase Β, lowercase β, or cursive ϐ; Ancient Greek: βῆτα, romanized: bē̂ta or Greek: βήτα, romanized: víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet.In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 2. In Modern Greek, it represents the voiced labiodental fricative IPA: while IPA: in borrowed words is instead commonly ...

Many scripts in Unicode, such as Arabic, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms.. In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and t (spelling et, Latin for and) were combined. The rules governing ligature formation in Arabic can be quite …

Pronunciation Ancient Greek. Its value in Ancient Greek was an aspirated velar stop /kʰ/ (in the Western Greek alphabet: /ks/).. Koine Greek. In Koine Greek and later dialects it became a fricative ([x] / [ç]) along with Θ and Φ.. Modern Greek. In Modern Greek, it has two distinct pronunciations: In front of high or front vowels (/e/ or /i/) it is pronounced as a voiceless palatal ...

In those two ligatures, a small ṟa ‌റ is written below the first letter (chillu-n if it is a dead n). Alternatively, the letter ṟa is sometimes written to the right of the first letter, making a digraph (just like ωι used instead of ῳ in Greek).

Strictly speaking, Demotic or Dimotiki (Δημοτική), refers to all popular varieties of Modern Greek that followed a common evolutionary path from Koine and have retained a high degree of mutual intelligibility to the present. As shown in Ptochoprodromic and Acritic poems, Demotic Greek was the vernacular already before the 11th century and called the "Roman" language of the …

Psi / ˈ (p) s aɪ, ˈ (p) s iː / (uppercase Ψ, lowercase ψ; Greek: ψι psi) is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and is associated with a numeric value of 700. In both Classical and Modern Greek, the letter indicates the combination /ps/ (as in English word "lapse").. For Greek loanwords in Latin and modern languages with Latin alphabets, psi is usually transliterated as "ps".

This list of words that may be spelled with a ligature in English encompasses words which have letters that may, in modern usage, either be rendered as two distinct letters or as a single, combined letter. This includes AE being rendered as Æ and OE being rendered as Œ.. Until the early twentieth century, the œ and æ ligatures had been commonly used to indicate an …

The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli.Although the systems differ in appearance, their letters share the same names and alphabetical order and are written horizontally from left to right.Of the three scripts, Mkhedruli, once the civilian royal script of the Kingdom of Georgia and mostly …

Other characters. Other Greek characters are omitted from the tables above: Subscript modifier letters β, γ, ρ, φ, and χ: ᵦ ᵧ ᵨ ᵩ ᵪ; Superscript modifier letters β, γ, δ, φ, and χ: ᵝ ᵞ ᵟ ᵠ ᵡ; Small capitals Γ, Λ, Π, Ρ, Ψ, and Ω: ᴦ ᴧ ᴨ ᴩ ᴪ ꭥ; Glyph variants for β, ε, Θ, θ, κ, ρ, Σ, σ/ς, π, Υ, Ύ, Ϋ, φ: ϐ ϵ ϴ ϑ ϰ ϱ Ϲ ϲ ϖ ϒ ϓ ...

The history of the Greek alphabet starts with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms in the 9th–8th centuries BC during early Archaic Greece and continues to the present day. The Greek alphabet was developed during the Iron Age centuries after the loss of Linear B, the syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek until the Late Bronze Age collapse and Greek …

Uses. The intended use when these characters were added to Unicode was to allow chemical and algebra formulas and phonetics to be written without markup, but produce true superscripts and subscripts. Thus "H₂O" (using a subscript character) is supposed to be identical to "H 2 O" (with subscript markup).. In reality most fonts that include these characters ignore the Unicode …

The letter ប bâ appears in somewhat modified form (e.g. បា) when combined with certain dependent vowels (see Ligatures). The letter ញ nhô is written without the lower curve when a subscript is added. When it is subscripted to itself, the subscript is a smaller form of the entire letter: ញ្ញ-nhnh-.

Semitic. The Semitic symbol was the seventh letter, named zayin, which meant "weapon" or "sword".It represented either the sound /z/ as in English and French, or possibly more like /dz/ (as in Italian zeta, zero).. Greek. The Greek form of Z was a close copy of the Phoenician Zayin (), and the Greek inscriptional form remained in this shape throughout ancient times.

Epsilon (/ ˈ ɛ p s ɪ l ɒ n /, UK also / ɛ p ˈ s aɪ l ə n /; uppercase Ε, lowercase ε or lunate ϵ; Greek: έψιλον) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid front unrounded vowel IPA: or IPA: .In the system of Greek numerals it also has the value five. It was derived from the Phoenician letter He.Letters that arose from epsilon include the ...