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Also known as eta

Eta ( ; uppercase ', lowercase '; ē̂ta or ita ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel, . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative, , in most dialects of Ancient Greek, its sound value in the classical Attic dialect was a long open-mid front unrounded vowel, , which was raised to in Hellenistic Greek, a process known as iotacism or itacism.

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Eta is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, originally used to represent a consonant sound but later used for vowel sounds that varied across different Greek dialects and time periods. It matters as a fundamental component of the Greek writing system and as an example of how letter pronunciations can shift significantly over centuries of linguistic change.

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Commons category: Eta (letter)
Unicode character: η
Commons gallery: Η

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History
Consonant h
Long e
Itacism
Cyrillic script
Uses
Letter
Symbol
Upper case
Lower case
Unicode
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In the ancient Attic number system (Herodianic or acrophonic numbers), the number 100 was represented by "", because it was the initial of , the ancient spelling of = "one hundred". In the later system of (Classical) Greek numerals eta represents 8.