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- 7th/6th century BC - Current era


List of symbols


Greek modelNon-Ionic or Etruscan variants of the Greek alphabet7th-5th BC4th-2nd BC1st BC -Current era
Α blank A A A
Β blank B B B
Γ = /g/ C = /k/ C C = /k/ C
Δ D D D D
Ε blank E E E
blank F = /w/ F F = /f/ F
blank blank blank G = /g/ G
Z = /dz/ blank blank (Z = /z/) blank
H = /ē/ H = /h/ H (/h/) H = /h/ H
I blank I I I
K blank K K K
Λ L L L L
Μ blank M M M
N blank N N N
O blank O O O
Π Γ P P P
blank Ϙ = /k/ Q Q = /q/ Q
P blank R R R
Σ ϟ S S S
T blank T T T
Y V = /y/ U V = /u/ /w/ V
X = /ch/ X = /cs/ X X = /cs/ X
blank blank blank blank Y = /y/
blank blank blank blank Z = /ts /dz/

  

See table in A. Traina, L’alfabeto e la pronunzia del latino, Bologna 1957 (fifth edizion, 2002), p. 21

 

 

  

Paleographic table

from Digital Vatican Library – Latin Paleography (© 2021 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)

 

 

Archaic capital

 

capitale arcaica

 

 

Book capital

 

capitale libraria

 

New cursive

 

corsiva nuova

 

Primitive minuscule

 

minuscola primitiva

 

 

Uncial

 

onciale 

 

Semi-uncial

 

semionciale





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