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An introduction to Greek and Latin palaeography

1912

Henry Frowde, M.A.
Among the two-and-twenty signs adopted from the Phoenician, four, viz, aleph, he, yod, and ayin () were made to represent the vowel-sounds a,e,i,o, both long and short, the signs for e and o being also employed for the diphthongs ei and ou. The last sound continued to be ( Read more... )