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V, or v, is the twenty-second and fifth-to-last letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is vee , plural vees. The letter V comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y. See F for details. In Greek, the letter upsilon "Υ" was
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See moreIn the International Phonetic Alphabet, /v/ represents the voiced labiodental fricative. See Help:IPA.
In English, special rules of orthography normally apply to the letter V:
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See moreIn most languages which use the Latin alphabet, ⟨v⟩ has a voiced bilabial or labiodental sound. In English, it is a voiced labiodental fricative. In most dialects of Spanish, it is pronounced
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See more• Classical Latin: V [uː] is the name for both its use as a consonant and as a vowel. Chiefly in its role of a consonant and where the context calls for it, V (or rather its sound) was sometimes called by Roman grammarians [wau̯] (Latin: VAV), this being a name for the
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See moreDescendants and related letters in the Latin alphabet
• U u : Latin letter U, originally the same letter as V
• W w : Latin letter W, descended from V/U
• Ỽ ỽ : Middle Welsh V...
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