Greek alphabet from which the later standard Greek alphabet emerged. Athens used a local form of the "light blue" alphabet type until the end of the fifth century BC, which lacked the letters Ξ and Ψ as well as the vowel symbols Η and Ω. In the Old Attic alphabet, stood for and for . was used for all three sounds (correspondinɡ to classical respectively), and was used for all of (corresponding to classical respectively). The letter (heta) was used for the consonant . Some variant local letter forms were also characteristic of Athenian writing, some of which were shared with the
Letter (alphabet) ⵕ, ⵙ, ⵚ, ⵜ, ⵟ, ⵡ, ⵢ, ⵣ, ⵥ. International Phonetic Alphabet - used to represent exact pronunciation. example, ʔ named Glottal Stop For other writing systems and their letters, see List of writing systems. Some writing systems have two major forms for each letter: an "uppercase" form (also called "capital" or "majuscule") and a "lowercase" form (also called "minuscule"). Only three Roman letters, "a", "g" and "t" , have more than one standard lowercase form. Upper- and lowercase letters represent the same sound, but serve different functions in writing. Capital letters are most often used at the beginning of