![]() S would settle as it appears today a terminal s (as it always had been at a word's end) after the 7th century AD – the internal forms were widely deprecated by the 19th century. After the evolution from the Western Greek Alphabet through Old Italic alphabet, G developed from C, the consonantal I (namely J) from a flourished I, V and U split likewise and the Germanic-centred ligature of VV became W, the letter thorn Þ was introduced from the runic alphabet but was lost in all except Icelandic, and s would be normally written as a long s (ſ) or, if doubled, ß inside a word, the latter surviving in German. Over the ages many dissimilar stylistic forms of each letter evolved but, when not becoming a recognised subform to transliterate exotic tongues, denoted the same letter. ![]() The lowercase letters evolved through cursive styles that developed to adapt the inscribed alphabet to being written with a pen. The Latin alphabet started out as uppercase serifed letters known as Roman square capitals. 2.2 Ultimate derivation from Egyptian hieroglyphs. ![]() 2.1 Legendary origin account in Hyginus.
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