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Þ
letter of the Latin alphabet
Ð
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Carolingian minuscule
form of writing
Ȝ
The letter yogh (uppercase: Ȝ, lowercase: ȝ; Scots: ; Middle English: ) is a Latin script letter that was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y () and various velar phonemes. It descends from the Insular G, the form of the letter g in the medieval Insular script, ᵹ.
ſ
archaic form of the Latin letter S (ſ)
archaic Cyrillic letter
Ƿ
thumb|Wynn in the Hildebrandslied manuscript (830s): the text reads ƿiges ƿarne. thumb|Capital wynn appears twice in this 10th century inscription in Breamore: her sƿutelað seo gecƿydrædnes ðe (Here is manifested the Word to thee). Wynn or wyn (; also spelled wen, win, ƿynn, ƿyn, ƿen, and ƿin), is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound . It was a continued use of the Anglo-Frisian Futhorc runes. Futhorc was the native alphabet of Old English before the Latin alphabet was adopted, and it was a sibling alphabet to the Younger Futhark alphabet that Old Norse
Claudian letters
three new letters of the Latin alphabet introduced by Roman Emperor Claudius
R rotunda
historical variant of the Latin letter R
form of the letter g used in Insular fonts in the Old English alphabet
letter of the Latin alphabet used in Middle Vietnamese
Old Norse letter used to represent the sounds /u/, /v/, and /w/
Lombardic capitals
type of decorative capital letter
Thai character kho khuat (U+0E03), 3rd consonant letter of the Thai alphabet
Bansiot (letter: ; name: ), sometimes called samgakhyeong (), is an archaic consonant letter of the Korean alphabet, Hangul. In Unicode, its name is spelled pansios, following the ISO/TR 11941 romanization system. Its sound value is disputed, but most scholars believe it to have been the voiced alveolar fricative in Middle Korean. It fell out of use around the late 16th century, as its corresponding phoneme disappeared from the language.
apex
Latin and Middle Vietnamese diacritic similar to an acute accent
obsolete hangul vowel letter
Yennieung (letter: ; name: ) is an archaic consonant letter of the Korean alphabet, Hangul. It was associated with an voiced velar nasal sound. In Unicode, its name is spelled yesieung, following the ISO/TR 11941 romanization system. The letter is no longer used in modern Hangul orthographies. Its function gradually merged with that of the letter ; that letter now fulfills both their previous roles.
Yeorinhieut (letter: ; name: ) is an archaic consonant letter of the Korean alphabet, Hangul. In Unicode, its name is spelled yeorinhieuh, following the ISO/TR 11941 romanization system. It was historically widely called doenieung (), but the South Korean National Institute of Korean Language decided in 1991 to officially name it yeorinhieut because it was felt that contemporary South Koreans would more visually associate the graph with hieut over ieung. It was associated with a glottal stop .