Faggin-Nazzi alphabet S, Š, T, U, V, Z. Faggin-Nazzi alphabet The Faggin-Nazzi alphabet is an orthographic system proposed to write the Friulian language, named after its creators, Giorgio Faggin and Gianni Nazzi. It was created before the orthography which is today standard for Friulian, that was developed by Catalan linguist Xavier Lamuela. Today Faggin-Nazzi is rarely used, also because it uses letters typical of Slavic languages, such as č, which are unfamiliar for most Furlans due to dissimilarity from the Italian alphabet. The alphabet consists of the following letters: A, B, C, Č, D, E, F, G, Ğ, H, I, J, L,
History of the alphabet the early western Greek dialects, where the letter eta remained an , gave rise to the Old Italic alphabet which in turn developed into the Old Roman alphabet. In the eastern Greek dialects, which did not have an /h/, eta stood for a vowel, and remains a vowel in modern Greek and all other alphabets derived from the eastern variants: Glagolitic, Cyrillic, Armenian, Gothic (which used both Greek and Roman letters), and perhaps Georgian. Although this description presents the evolution of scripts in a linear fashion, this is a simplification. For example, the Manchu alphabet, descended from the abjads of