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From: bruck@actcom.co.il (Uri Bruck)
Subject: Re: Origin of the letters AE,Y,W,J
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Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 21:58:35 GMT
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H Thygesen (edb-ht@find2.dbc.bib.dk) wrote:
: Anybody knows at what time J, W and Y where incorporated in the Latin 
: alphabet ? What about AE (which is typed as one letter in Dansih and Norwegian
: and sometimes in latin words such as anaestisia ?)

: Helene
According to my charts, Y was derived from the old Hebrew(/phonician) waw and
then 'misplaced' to the end of the alphabet, the waw is the sixth Hebrew letter.
J and W were added to the alphabet to represent sounds that were not needed
in greek.
Uri

