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The letter (sometimes called sho or san) was a letter added to the Greek alphabet in order to write the
Proposal to add two Greek letters for Bactrian to the UCS
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Its original name and position in the Bactrian alphabet, if it had any, are unknown. Some authors have called it "san", on the basis of the hypothesis that it was a survival or reintroduction of the archaic Greek letter San. This letter closely resembles, perhaps coincidentally, the letter of the Greek-based
"Syntychies" lexicographic database
at the University of Cyprus, e.g. " mashallah". When diacritics are not used, an epenthetic —often accompanied by the systematic substitution of the preceding consonant letter—may be used to the same effect, e.g. Standard Modern Greek → Cypriot Greek . The Tsakonian language, considered a Hellenic language or a very divergent dialect of Greek, has a sound. It is spelled or, in Thanasis Costakis' orthography, .
Bactrian language
Bactrian (, , ) is an extinct Eastern Iranian language formerly spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria (in present-day Afghanistan) and used as the official language of the Kushan, and the Hephthalite empires.
Name
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.Everson, M. and Sims-Williams, N. (2002) �Proposal to add two Greek letters for Bactrian to the UCS
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Anglo-Saxon
The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo-Saxons happened wit ...
and Icelandic letter thorn (þ), which has typically been used to represent it in modern print, although both are historically quite unrelated. It probably represented a sound similar to English "sh" (). Its conventional transliteration in Latin is .
Its original name and position in the Bactrian alphabet, if it had any, are unknown. Some authors have called it "san", on the basis of the hypothesis that it was a survival or reintroduction of the archaic Greek letter San. This letter closely resembles, perhaps coincidentally, the letter of the Greek-based Carian alphabet
The Carian alphabets are a number of regional scripts used to write the Carian language of western Anatolia. They consisted of some 30 alphabetic letters, with several geographic variants in Caria and a homogeneous variant attested from the Nil ...
which may have also stood for . The name "sho" was coined for the letter for purposes of modern computer encoding in 2002, on the basis of analogy with "rho" (), the letter with which it seems to be graphically related. Ϸ was added to Unicode in version 4.0 (2003), in an uppercase and lowercase character designed for modern typography.
Other representations of in the Greek alphabet
The modern Cypriot Greek dialect also has an sound, but it is represented with the combining caron , by the authors of th"Syntychies" lexicographic database
at the University of Cyprus, e.g. " mashallah". When diacritics are not used, an epenthetic —often accompanied by the systematic substitution of the preceding consonant letter—may be used to the same effect, e.g. Standard Modern Greek → Cypriot Greek . The Tsakonian language, considered a Hellenic language or a very divergent dialect of Greek, has a sound. It is spelled or, in Thanasis Costakis' orthography, .
References
* Greek letters Bactrian language 1st-century introductions 9th-century endings {{writingsystem-stub