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
Spelling alphabet names used in lieu of alphabet letters for the purpose of spelling out words. It is used by the Greek armed and emergency services. Malay and related languages (Indonesian etc.) represent letter "L" with "London", since the word "lima" also means "five" in these languages. The Russian spelling alphabet is a spelling alphabet for the Russian version of the Cyrillic alphabet. In Spanish the word "ñoño" (, 'dull') is used for ñ. The PGP word list, the Bubble Babble wordlist used by ssh-keygen, and the S/KEY dictionary, are spelling alphabets for public key fingerprints (or other binary data) – a