Delta (letter)Delta ( DEL-tə; uppercase Δ, lowercase δ; Greek: δέλτα, délta, [ˈðelta]) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of four. It was derived from the Phoenician letter dalet 𐤃. Letters that come from delta include the Latin D and the Cyrillic Д. A river delta (originally, the delta of the Nile River) is named so because its shape approximates the triangular uppercase letter delta.
International Phonetic AlphabetSystem of phonetic notation International Phonetic Alphabet"IPA", transcribed narrowly according to Received Pronunciation as [aɪ̯ pʰiː eɪ̯]Script type Alphabet – partially featuralPeriod1888–presentLanguagesUsed for phonetic and phonemic transcription of any oral languageRelated scriptsParent systemsEgyptian hieroglyphsProto-Sinaitic scriptPhoenician alphabetGreek alphabetLatin scriptLepsius Standard AlphabetPalaeotype alphabet, English Phonotypic AlphabetRomic alphabetInternational Phonetic AlphabetChild systemsIPA Braille, ExtIPAUnicodeUnicode rangeSee Phonetic symbols in Unicode § Unicode blocks This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
Semitic languagesThe Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South Arabian languages and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 460 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Malta, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.
English alphabetModern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. The earliest Old English writing during the 5th century used a runic alphabet known as the futhorc.
LogogramGrapheme which represents a word or a morpheme Egyptian hieroglyphs, including logograms such as the sun disk (⊙, visible several times here) In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek logos 'word', and gramma 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme.
Latin alphabetThe Latin alphabet is the set of letters used by the ancient Romans to write Classical Latin, later augmented with lower-case letters to write Medieval Latin. Its expansion into the core 26-letter modern inventory (standardised today as the ISO basic Latin alphabet, which is utilized by Modern Latin), was motivated by vernacular languages.Letter (alphabet)In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two. An alphabet is a writing system that uses letters.
Letter caseLetter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper- and lowercase have two parallel sets of letters: each in the majuscule set has a counterpart in the minuscule set.
Typeface anatomyTypeface anatomy describes the graphic elements that make up letters in a typeface or font (a specific size, slope, and style of a typeface). StrokesThe strokes are the components of a letterform. Stroke shape in many typefaces is influenced by historical methods of writing, such as the shape of a tool, the angle at which it is applied, and the degree of pressure used.Western EuropeWestern Europe is the western region of Europe. The region's extent varies depending on context. The concept of "the West" appeared in Europe in juxtaposition to "the East" and originally applied to the Western half of the ancient , the Latin West of the Roman Empire, and "Western Christendom".
Voiced dental and alveolar plosivesVoiced alveolar and dental plosives (or stops) are a type of consonantal sound used in many spokenlanguages. The alveolar is familiar to English-speakers as the ⟨d⟩ sound in adore. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolarplosives is ⟨d⟩; the diacritic in ⟨d̪⟩ can be used to distinguish the dental.
DaletDalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoeniciandālt 𐤃, Hebrewdāletד, Aramaicdālaṯ 𐡃, Syriacdālaṯ ܕ, and Arabicdālد (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive ([d]). It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪕, South Arabian𐩵, and Ge'ezደ.
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International Phonetic AlphabetSystem of phonetic notation International Phonetic Alphabet"IPA", transcribed narrowly according to Received Pronunciation as [aɪ̯ pʰiː eɪ̯]Script type Alphabet – partially featuralPeriod1888–presentLanguagesUsed for phonetic and phonemic transcription of any oral languageRelated scriptsParent systemsEgyptian hieroglyphsProto-Sinaitic scriptPhoenician alphabetGreek alphabetLatin scriptLepsius Standard AlphabetPalaeotype alphabet, English Phonotypic AlphabetRomic alphabetInternational Phonetic AlphabetChild systemsIPA Braille, ExtIPAUnicodeUnicode rangeSee Phonetic symbols in Unicode § Unicode blocks This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).Semitic languagesThe Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Modern South Arabian languages and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 460 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Malta, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.English alphabetModern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. The earliest Old English writing during the 5th century used a runic alphabet known as the futhorc.LogogramGrapheme which represents a word or a morpheme Egyptian hieroglyphs, including logograms such as the sun disk (⊙, visible several times here) In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek logos 'word', and gramma 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme.Latin alphabetThe Latin alphabet is the set of letters used by the ancient Romans to write Classical Latin, later augmented with lower-case letters to write Medieval Latin. Its expansion into the core 26-letter modern inventory (standardised today as the ISO basic Latin alphabet, which is utilized by Modern Latin), was motivated by vernacular languages.Letter (alphabet)In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two. An alphabet is a writing system that uses letters.Letter caseLetter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper- and lowercase have two parallel sets of letters: each in the majuscule set has a counterpart in the minuscule set.Typeface anatomyTypeface anatomy describes the graphic elements that make up letters in a typeface or font (a specific size, slope, and style of a typeface). StrokesThe strokes are the components of a letterform. Stroke shape in many typefaces is influenced by historical methods of writing, such as the shape of a tool, the angle at which it is applied, and the degree of pressure used.Western EuropeWestern Europe is the western region of Europe. The region's extent varies depending on context. The concept of "the West" appeared in Europe in juxtaposition to "the East" and originally applied to the Western half of the ancient , the Latin West of the Roman Empire, and "Western Christendom".Voiced dental and alveolar plosivesVoiced alveolar and dental plosives (or stops) are a type of consonantal sound used in many spokenlanguages. The alveolar is familiar to English-speakers as the ⟨d⟩ sound in adore. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolarplosives is ⟨d⟩; the diacritic in ⟨d̪⟩ can be used to distinguish the dental.DaletDalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoeniciandālt 𐤃, Hebrewdāletד, Aramaicdālaṯ 𐡃, Syriacdālaṯ ܕ, and Arabicdālد (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive ([d]). It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪕, South Arabian𐩵, and Ge'ezደ.ԴRelated word or term.դRelated word or term.啲Related word or term.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.