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| | |  Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - Capital letters - UsageIn alphabets with a case distinction, capitals are used for:
Capitalization,
Acronyms,
Better legibility, for example on signs and in labeling, and
Emphasis in some languages.
Capital letters are sometimes used for typographical emphasis in Internet text in place of bolding or italicizing. However, long spans of text in all uppercase are harder to read because of the absence of ascenders and descenders found in lowercase letters, which can aid recognition. In printed material where acrony ...
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| | | | Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - Latin alphabet - Extensions In the course of its history, the Latin alphabet was adapted for use for new languages, some of which had phonemes which were not used in languages previously written with this alphabet, and therefore extensions were created as needed. These take the form of modified symbols by changing the shape or adding diacritics, by joining several letters together as ligatures, or by completely new forms.
These new forms are given a place in the alphabet by defining a collating sequence. This is language dependent as shown in the pertinent section below.
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| | | | Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - Latin alphabet - Collating sequence with extensions Alphabets derived from the Latin have varying collating rules:
In Breton, there is no "c" but there are the ligatures "ch" and "c'h", which are collated between "b" and "d". For example: « buzhugenn, chug, c'hoar, daeraouenn » (earthworm, juice, sister, teardrop).
In Croatian and Serbian and related South Slavic languages, the five accented characters and three conjoined characters are sorted after the originals: ..., C, Č, Ć, D, DŽ, Đ, E, ..., L, LJ, M, N, NJ, O, ..., S, Š, T, ..., Z, Ž.
In C ...
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| | | | Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - Latin alphabet - Overview The default Latin alphabet is the Roman, supplemented with J, W, Z, U, and lower-case variants:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Additional letters may be formed
as ligatures, as W was from VV, for example Æ (ash) from AE, oethel Œ from OE, eszett ß from SZ, engma ŋ from NG, ou Ȣ from OU, Ñ from NN, or Ç from CZ;
by diacritics, such as Å, Č, Ų;
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| | | | Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - Latin alphabet - Evolution It is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy. From the Cumae alphabet, the Etruscan alphabet was derived and the Latins finally adopted 21 of the original 26 Etruscan letters.
The original Latin alphabet was:
Image:Older Latin glyphs.png
C stood for both g and k.
I stood for both i and j.
V stood for both u and v.
Later the Z was dropp ...
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| | | | Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - Latin alphabet - Overview The default Latin alphabet is the Roman, supplemented with J, W, Z, K, and lower-case variants:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Additional letters may be formed
as ligatures, as W was from VV, for example ash Æ from AE, oethel Œ from OE, eszett ß from SZ, engma ŋ from NG, ou Ȣ from OU, Ñ from NN, or Ç from CZ;
by diacritics, such as Å, Č, Ų;
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| | | | Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - Roman cursive - Ancient Roman cursive Ancient Roman cursive, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting used for writing letters, by merchants writing business accounts, by schoolchildren learning the Roman alphabet, and even emperors issuing commands. A more formal style of writing was based on Roman square capitals, but cursive was used for quicker, informal writing. It was most commonly used from about the 1st century BC to the 3rd century, but it probably existed earlier than that; the comedian Plautus, in Pseudolus ...
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| | | | Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - List of Ancient Rome-related topics - History
List of Ancient Rome-related topics - Regional History.
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History of Greek and Roman Egypt
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| | | | Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - Fraktur typeface - Use As opposed to other countries, in Germany, typesetting in Fraktur was entirely common still in the 19th century. Some books from the time used Schwabacher still; however, the predominant typeface was the Normalfraktur (Fig. 1), which came in various slight variations.
Since the 18th century, the Fraktur was replaced more and more by antiqua because of the obvious communication problems with non-native German speakers. However, in an attempt to deliberately differentiate Germany from the rest of the Western world, it was ...
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| | | | Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - Uncial - Forms In general, there are some common features of uncial script:
m, n, and u are relatively broad; m is formed with curved strokes (although a straight first stroke may indicate an early script), and n is written as N to distinguish it from r and s.
f, i, p, s, t and relatively narrow.
e is formed with a curved stroke, and its arm (or hasta) does not connect with the top curve; the height of the arm can also indicate the age of the script (written in a high position, the script is probably ear ...
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| | | | Roman square capitals: Encyclopedia II - Trajan's Column - Its purpose It was traditionally thought that the Column was a propagandistic monument, glorifying the emperor's military exploits. But because the structure would have been generally invisible, surrounded by other buildings in Trajan's Forum, and simply the difficulty involved in following the frieze from end to end, it is now considered to have had much less propagandistic value. Based on the inscription, the column may have been a measuring guide for the construction of the forum.
After Trajan's death in 117, the Roman Senate voted to have Trajan's ashes buried in the Column's base in a ...
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