Antonie Lavoisisisiser
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Publicado: 19 de octubre de 2012
In 1600 B.C., the Phoenician alphabet's letter had a linear form that served as the base for some later forms. Its name must have corresponded closely to the Hebrew or Arabic aleph.
Blackletter AUncial A
Another Blackletter A
Modern Roman A
Modern Italic A
Modern Script A
When the ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, they had no use for the glottal stop—the first phoneme of thePhoenician pronunciation of the letter, and the sound that the letter denoted in Phoenician and other Semitic languages—so they used an adaptation of the sign to represent the vowel /a/, and gave itthe similar name of alpha. In the earliest Greek inscriptions after the Greek Dark Ages, dating to the 8th century BC, the letter rests upon its side, but in the Greek alphabet of later times itgenerally resembles the modern capital letter, although many local varieties can be distinguished by the shortening of one leg, or by the angle at which the cross line is set.
The Etruscans brought theGreek alphabet to their civilization in the Italian Peninsula and left the letter unchanged. The Romans later adopted the Etruscan alphabet to write the Latin language, and the resulting letter waspreserved in the Latin alphabet used to write many languages, including English.
Typographic variants include a double-story a and single-story ɑ.
The letter has two minuscule (lower-case) forms. Theform used in most current handwriting consists of a circle and vertical stroke ("ɑ"), called Latin alpha or "script a". This slowly developed from the fifth-century form resembling the Greek lettertau in the hands of dark-age Irish and English writers.[2] Most printed material uses a form consisting of a small loop with an arc over it ("a"). Both derive from the majuscule (capital) form. In Greekhandwriting, it was common to join the left leg and horizontal stroke into a single loop, as demonstrated by the Uncial version shown. Many fonts then made the right leg vertical. In some of these,...
Blackletter AUncial A
Another Blackletter A
Modern Roman A
Modern Italic A
Modern Script A
When the ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, they had no use for the glottal stop—the first phoneme of thePhoenician pronunciation of the letter, and the sound that the letter denoted in Phoenician and other Semitic languages—so they used an adaptation of the sign to represent the vowel /a/, and gave itthe similar name of alpha. In the earliest Greek inscriptions after the Greek Dark Ages, dating to the 8th century BC, the letter rests upon its side, but in the Greek alphabet of later times itgenerally resembles the modern capital letter, although many local varieties can be distinguished by the shortening of one leg, or by the angle at which the cross line is set.
The Etruscans brought theGreek alphabet to their civilization in the Italian Peninsula and left the letter unchanged. The Romans later adopted the Etruscan alphabet to write the Latin language, and the resulting letter waspreserved in the Latin alphabet used to write many languages, including English.
Typographic variants include a double-story a and single-story ɑ.
The letter has two minuscule (lower-case) forms. Theform used in most current handwriting consists of a circle and vertical stroke ("ɑ"), called Latin alpha or "script a". This slowly developed from the fifth-century form resembling the Greek lettertau in the hands of dark-age Irish and English writers.[2] Most printed material uses a form consisting of a small loop with an arc over it ("a"). Both derive from the majuscule (capital) form. In Greekhandwriting, it was common to join the left leg and horizontal stroke into a single loop, as demonstrated by the Uncial version shown. Many fonts then made the right leg vertical. In some of these,...
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