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Also known as thorn, þorn
lettre de l'alphabet latin
AI overview
Þ (called "thorn") is a letter that was used in Old English and Icelandic to represent the "th" sound. It's historically important because it shows how different languages have used various symbols to write sounds that modern English now spells with two letters together.
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Key facts
- Writing system
- Adapted from Futhark and Futhorc into Latin script
- Type
- Alphabetic and logographic
- Language of origin
- Old English language , Old Norse language
- Sound values
- [ θ ] , [ ð ] , [ θ̠ ] , [ ð̠ ] , [ tʰ ] , [ z ] , / θ ɔːr n /
- In unicode
- U+00DE, U+00FE
- Development
- ᚦ Þ þ
- Time period
- ~800 to present
- Descendants
- ꝥ
- Sisters
- None
- Transliterations
- Θ , th
- Associated graphs
- th, dh
- Writing direction
- Left-to-right
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Latin script
- Based on
- Thurisaz
- Image
- Latin letter Þþ.svg
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- Commons category
- Þ
- Unicode character
- þ
- different from
- Y/y
- writing system
- Latin script
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Article · Français
Thorn (capitale Þ, minuscule þ, parfois notée Þorn) est une lettre qui est aujourd'hui utilisée dans l'alphabet islandais.
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