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投稿者：ufo9 - 2025/12/31(Wed) 12:36 No.1627397 [返信]
15th-century Italy saw the formation of the two main variants that are known today. By the ninth century, the Caroline script, which was very similar to the present-day form, was the principal form used in book-making, before the advent of the printing press. There was also a cursive style used for everyday or utilitarian writing, which was done on more perishable surfaces. When the ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, they had no use for a letter representing a glottal stop—so they adapted the sign to represent the vowel /a/, calling the letter by the similar name alpha. The earliest known ancestor of A is aleph—the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet—where it represented a glottal stop [ʔ], as Phoenician only used consonantal letters. A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Before a consonant sound represented by a vowel letter a is usual In the Phoenician alphabet the letter stood for a species of breathing, as vowels were not represented in the Semitic alphabets. Also, A is typically used as one of the letters to label an angle in a triangle. It can sound like ?, in the International Phonetic Alphabet, such as the word pad. The Greek alphabet was used by the Etruscans in northern Italy, and the Romans later modified the Etruscan alphabet for their own language. The Greeks later modified this letter and used it as their letter alpha. The small letter, a, is used as a lowercase vowel. An exception is Saanich, in which ⟨a⟩—and the glyph ⟨A⟩—stands for a close-mid front unrounded vowel /e/.
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