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Page 622
... letter following by a small , upward curved stroke . With the exception of six letters , which can be joined only to the preceding ones , the initial and medial letters are much abbreviated , while the final form consists of the initial ...
... letter following by a small , upward curved stroke . With the exception of six letters , which can be joined only to the preceding ones , the initial and medial letters are much abbreviated , while the final form consists of the initial ...
Page 626
... letters , of which the Romans adopted only 21. They did not retain the three Greek aspirate letters , theta , phi , and chi , in the alphabet because there were no corre- sponding Latin sounds but did employ them to represent the ...
... letters , of which the Romans adopted only 21. They did not retain the three Greek aspirate letters , theta , phi , and chi , in the alphabet because there were no corre- sponding Latin sounds but did employ them to represent the ...
Page 627
... letters of the borrowed alphabet has been to add diacriti- cal marks , either above or under the letters , to their right or left or inside . To this group belong the German vowels ü , ä , ö ; the Portuguese and French cedilla in c ...
... letters of the borrowed alphabet has been to add diacriti- cal marks , either above or under the letters , to their right or left or inside . To this group belong the German vowels ü , ä , ö ; the Portuguese and French cedilla in c ...
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