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Also known as Ϻ

archaic letter of the Greek alphabet

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"San" was an old letter used in ancient Greek writing that eventually fell out of use and was replaced by other letters. It matters to historians and linguists because studying it helps us understand how the Greek alphabet evolved and how ancient Greek was written and pronounced.

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Encyclopedic overview

History

Archaic local variants

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “san” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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