XX (minuscule: x) is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is (pronounced ), plural exes. HistoryThe letter ⟨X⟩, representing /ks/, was inherited from the Etruscan alphabet. It perhaps originated in the ⟨Χ⟩ of the Euboean alphabet or another Western Greek alphabet, which also represented /ks/.
International Phonetic AlphabetSystem of phonetic notationThe International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association, starting in the late 19th century, as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech.
ZΖ ζ𐌆Z zTime periodc. 700 BCE to presentDescendantsƷÇƵŽŻ𐌶ℤᏃSistersЗЅԐԆҘꙅӠז ز ܙژࠆዘ𐎇Զ զᏃᏋᏨડઢज़ Disputed: ㄷOtherAssociated graphsz(x), cz, dž, dz, sz, dzs, tzschWriting directionLeft-to-rightThis article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see .
QophNineteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets ← Tsade Qoph Resh →Phoenician𐤒HebrewקSamaritanࠒAramaic𐡒SyriacܩNabataean𐢚ArabicقSouth Arabian𐩤GeʽezቀNorth Arabian𐪄Ugaritic𐎖Phonemic representationq, g, ʔ, kPosition in alphabet19Numerical value100Alphabetic derivatives of the PhoenicianGreekϘ, ΦLatinQ, ƢCyrillicҀ, Ф, Ԛ Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician qōp 𐤒, Hebrew qôp̄ ק, Aramaic qop 𐡒, Syriac qōp̄ ܩ, and Arabic qāf ق.Latin alphabetAlphabet of the Latin language Latin alphabetAbecedarium LatinumScript type Alphabet Periodc.
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.
Proto-Sinaitic scriptMiddle Bronze Age scriptThe Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30–40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as two inscriptions from Wadi el-Hol in Middle Egypt.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.KoppaHistoryArchaic local variants Diacritics and other symbolsDiacriticsάὰᾶἀἁᾱᾰϊᾳσ̌LigaturesϗϛNumerals (Attic)ϛ (6)ϟ (90)ϡ (900) Related topicsUse as scientific symbolsOrthographyRomanizationCyrillizationKoppa or Qoppa (UK: , US: ; uppercase: Ϙ, lowercase: ϙ, numeral: ϟ) is a letter that was used in early forms of the Greek alphabet, derived from Phoenician qoph (𐤒).
Voiceless uvular plosiveA voiceless uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive[k], except that the tongue makes contact not on the soft palate but on the uvula. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨q⟩. FeaturesFeatures of a voiceless uvular stop: Its manner of articulation is occlusive, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract.
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