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Koppa or
qoppa (Ϙ, ϙ; as a
modern numeral sign: ϟ) is a
letter that was used in
early forms of the Gr**** alphabet,
derived from
Phoenician qoph (𐤒)....
- Gr****
changed to /p/ and /pʰ/ respectively. Therefore,
qoppa was
transformed into two letters:
qoppa,
which stood for the
number 90, and phi (Φ),
which stood...
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Koppa (Ҁ ҁ; italics: Ҁ ҁ) is an
archaic numeral character of the
Cyrillic script. Its form (and
modern name) are
derived from some
forms of the Gr**** letter...
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phoneme is
therefore usually ⟨f⟩. It may be that phi
originated as the
letter qoppa (Ϙ, ϙ), and
initially represented the
sound /kʷʰ/
before shifting to classical...
- It is
possible that
qoppa had been ****igned to the
Ancient Gr**** /kʷʰ/, and when that
sound shifted to /pʰ/, the
letter qoppa continued as the letter...
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Corinthian stater. Obverse:
Pegasus with
Qoppa (Ϙ) beneath. Reverse:
Athena wearing Corinthian helmet.
Qoppa symbolised the
archaic spelling of the city...
- antiquity,
Phoenician qōp is also the
origin of the
Latin letter Q and Gr**** Ϙ (
qoppa) and Φ (phi). The
Arabic letter ق is
named قاف qāf. It is
written in several...
- kept the sign as a
local emblem on its coins. The
archaic letter Koppa or
Qoppa (Ϙ), used for the back
allophone of /k/
before back
vowels [o, u], was originally...
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competition with Σ (sigma)
denoting the same
phoneme /s/; the
letter Ϙ (
qoppa),
which was
redundant with Κ (kappa) for /k/, and Ϝ (digamma),
whose sound...
- used for the main construction. For example, its
stylized Q is
based on
qoppa, an
ancient form of Q. The O with a
cross () is an
early form of theta....
