using polish orthography principles. At the beginning of the 20th century‚ this was replaced by a more phonetically appropriate system‚ using a modified Latin alphabet. Standard orthography Today‚ the Latvian standard alphabet consists of 33 letters: The modern standard Latvian alphabet uses 22 unmodified letters of the Latin alphabet (all except Q‚ W‚ X and Y). It adds a further eleven letters by modification. The vowel letters A‚ E‚ I and U can take a macron to show length‚ unmodified letters
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Evolution of Letters Nearly all modern alphabets are descended from an alphabet invented 4000 years ago‚ probably by a group of people related to the ancient Hebrews‚ Phoenicians‚ and Canaanites‚ living in what is now the Sinai desert. They got the idea from the Egyptians‚ but used their own simplified pictures to represented consonant sounds. The Phoenicians and others of the region simplified the pictures further and often rotated them‚ but if you use your imagination‚ you can still make out
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ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet‚ they had no use for the glottal stop—the first phoneme of the Phoenician pronunciation of the letter‚ and the sound that the letter denoted in Phoenician and other Semitic languages—so they used an adaptation of the sign to represent the vowel /a/‚ and gave it the similar name of alpha. In the earliest Greek inscriptions after the Greek Dark Ages‚ dating to the 8th century BC‚ the letter rests upon its side‚ but in the Greek alphabet of later times it generally
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historical opposition of length in the close vowels has been neutralized in word-final position‚ for example Sanskrit loans śakti (शक्ति – شَکتی ’energy’) and vastu (वस्तु – وَستُو ’item’) are /ʃəkt̪i/ and /ʋəst̪u/‚ not */ʃəkt̪ɪ/ and */ʋəst̪ʊ/.[3] Alphabet: The Devangari script employed by Hindi contains both vowels (10) and consonants (40) and is characterized by bars on top of the symbols. Hindi is highly phonetic; i.e. the pronunciation of new words can be reliably predicted from their written form
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article is about the letter of the alphabet. For other uses‚ see B (disambiguation). For technical reasons‚ "B#" redirects here. For B-sharp‚ see B♯. Page semi-protected B ISO basic Latin alphabet Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz Cursive.svg Circle sheer blue 29.gif Circle sheer blue 27.gif Cursive script ’b ’ and capital ’B ’ B (named bee /ˈbiː/[1]) is the second letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is used to represent a variety
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My Personal Alphabet Average- I’m average because I’m just a normal I live a typical life. Bias- I’m bias because if you don’t show me that something is true then I won’t believe you. Compassionate- I’m compassionate toward my family and what I believe in. Devoted- I’m devoted to my family and I would do anything for them. Eager- I’m eager to get out of high school and into the big world. Fair- I know life’s not fair but there are situations that should be fair. Generous- I hate selfish
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a safe and supportive learning environment. – Plan and Design. These lessons introduce learners to the building blocks of Spanish. And the index is the following: Frequency: 2 hours per day on Monday‚ Wednesday and Friday Week 1.-The Spanish Alphabet Week 2.-Pronunciation: The Easy Consonants Week 3. - Pronunciation: Vowels Week 4.-Pronunciation: Difficult Consonants Week 5.-Greetings Week 6.- Plurals Week 7.- Gender Week 8.- Introduction to the Definite Article Week 9.- introduction
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Being a seafaring nation‚ the Phoenicians established colonies all over the Mediterranean area‚ including the present-day cities of Carthage and Tripoli. As notable traders‚ they shared cultures with many nations‚ which allowed their invention of the alphabet to spread throughout Eurasia. The Phoenician Empire continued to evolve until its eventual incorporation into the Persian and Macedonian Empires‚ around 400 BCE. <br> <br>Phoenicia is an ancient region lying on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean
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The story I read‚ A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel by Yoon Ha Lee‚ is set in a futuristic world where the universe is populated by different alien civilizations (Lee‚ 2011). In a populated and civilized universe‚ interstellar travel is the essential feature of every civilization‚ and the author imagines different civilizations culturally appropriating interstellar travel in different ways (Lee‚ 2011). For instance‚ an unnamed civilization that worships the cult of Mrithaya believes their
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most usages of K and Q. K survived only in a few fossilized forms such as Kalendae‚ "the calends".[5] When Greek words were taken into Latin‚ the Kappa was changed to C‚ with a few exceptions such as the praenomen ’Kaeso’.[2] Some words from other alphabets were also transliterated with C. Hence‚ the Romance languages have ’K’ only in words from other language groups. The Celtic languages also chose ’C’ over ’K’‚ and this influence carried over into Old English. Today‚ English is the only Germanic language
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