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Ͷ

Ͷ

Ͷ U+0376, Ͷ
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PAMPHYLIAN DIGAMMA
͵
[U+0375]
Greek and Coptic ͷ
[U+0377]
See also: ͷ, и, 𐑍, 𐐥, and И

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

  • (Pamphylian, hypothesised) IPA(key): [w]

Letter

Ͷ (V) (upper case, lower case ͷ)

  1. (Pamphylian Greek) digamma, denoting a voiced labio-velar approximant, and sorted between epsilon and zeta

Etymology 2

An alteration of Ϻ, ϻ (Ϻ, ś, san); it occurred in the Arcadocypriot Greek dialect of Mantinea in Arcadia, wherein it is believed that it denoted a reflex of the Proto-Greek phoneme */kʷ/, intermediate between it and the later Arcadocypriot /sː/.

Pronunciation

  • (Arcadocypriot, hypothesised) IPA(key): /t͡sʼ/

Letter

Ͷ (Ś) (upper case, lower case ͷ)

  1. (Arcadocypriot Greek) tsan, denoting an alveolar ejective affricate; its sorting order is not known
Synonyms
  • (Arcadocypriot tsan): Σ̱ ()

Etymology 3

Applied due to the resemblance of the Melian glyph to the Unicode reference glyph shared by the Pamphylian digamma and Arcadocypriot tsan.

Letter

Ͷ (B) (upper case, lower case ͷ)

  1. (nonstandard) an allograph of Β occurring in inscriptions from the isle of Melos

ͷ

ͷ

ͷ U+0377, ͷ
GREEK SMALL LETTER PAMPHYLIAN DIGAMMA
[unassigned: U+0378–U+0379]
Ͷ
[U+0376]
Greek and Coptic ͺ
[U+037A]
See also: Ͷ, и, 𐑍, 𐐥, and И

Ancient Greek

Letter

ͷ (v) (lower case, upper case Ͷ)

  1. (Pamphylian Greek) digamma, denoting a voiced labio-velar approximant, and sorted between epsilon and zeta

Pronunciation 2

Letter

ͷ (ś) (lower case, upper case Ͷ)

  1. (Arcadocypriot Greek) tsan, denoting an alveolar ejective affricate; its sorting order is not known
Synonyms
  • (Arcadocypriot tsan): σ̱ ()

Pronunciation 3

Letter

ͷ (b) (lower case, upper case Ͷ)

  1. (nonstandard) an allograph of β occurring in inscriptions from the isle of Melos