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1402:, a pair of uppercase and lowercase forms of the letter was introduced in version 4.0 (2003). For this purpose, new lowercase forms for modern typography, for which no prior typographic tradition existed, had to be designed. Most fonts have adopted the convention of distinguishing uppercase San from Mu by having its central V-like section descend only halfway down above the baseline, and lowercase San by giving it a left stem descending below the baseline. (Note that in historical epigraphic practice it was the other way round, with San being symmetrical and Mu having a longer left stem.) 578: 610: 1375: 1301: 534: 1086: 1316: 1024: 909: 809: 37: 1032: 959: 834: 698: 884: 859: 934: 1158: 1169: 1068: 784: 686: 602: 1270: 1339: 1060: 1052: 1040: 705:
According to a different theory, "San" was indeed the original name of what is now known as Sigma, and as such presents a direct representation of the corresponding name "Shin" in that position. This name was only later also associated with the alternative local letter now known as "San", whose
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In modern editions and transcriptions of ancient Greek writing, San has rarely been used as a separate letter. Since it never contrasts systematically with Sigma except in abecedaria, it is usually silently regularized to Sigma in modern editorial practice. In the electronic encoding standard
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sounds than Greek had. According to one theory, the distribution of the sibilant letters in Greek is due to pair-wise confusion between the sounds and alphabet positions of the four Phoenician sibilant signs: Greek Sigma got its shape and alphabetic position from Phoenician
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writing: shard incised with the dedicatory inscription "ΗΕΡΟΟΣ" (classic Greek spelling Ἥρωος, "of the Hero"), using San together with consonantal H and a characteristic Sikyonian X-shaped form of Epsilon.
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The name of "San" lived on as an alternative (dialectal or archaic) name for "Sigma" even at a time when the letter itself had everywhere been replaced with standard Sigma. Thus,
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Kogan, Leonid (2011). "Proto-Semitic Phonetics and Phonology". In Semitic languages: an international handbook, Stefan Weninger, ed. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 69.
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original name remains unknown. The modern name "Sigma", in turn, was a transparent Greek innovation that simply meant "hissing", based on a nominalization of a verb
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in alphabetic order. In addition to denoting this separate archaic character, the name San was also used as an alternative name to denote the standard letter Sigma.
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The existence of the two competing letters Sigma and San is traditionally believed to have been due to confusion during the adoption of the Greek alphabet from the
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V.ii.262) It is widely assumed to be a local innovation based on San, although Jeffery (1961) classes it as a variant of Sigma. It appears to have denoted a
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Greek writing from Knossos to Homer: a linguistic interpretation of the origin of the Greek alphabet and the continuity of ancient Greek literacy
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sound and has been labelled "Tsan" by some modern writers. In the local Arcadian dialect, this sound occurred in words that reflect
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Note the use of San at the end of most names, and the difference between San and Mu (with a shorter right stem,
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San is encoded in Unicode, while the Arcadian "Tsan" variant is unified with the identical-looking
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sound, possibly or , which would have been a natural intermediate step in the sound change from
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From these correspondences, it can be concluded that the letter most likely denoted an
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in the late 5th century reports that the same letter was called "San" by the
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Moreover, a modern re-interpretation of the sound values of the sibilants in
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Note, however, that the same symbol is used to denote the unrelated letter
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script: incised shard with a list of names, c.700 BC. The text reads:
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Woodard, Roger D. (2006). "Alphabet". In Wilson, Nigel Guy (ed.).
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Design of the Greek archaic letter San for use in computer fonts
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San could be written with the outer stems either straight (
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Note that on that page this letter is transcribed as "σ5".
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which contained the spelled-out name of the philosopher
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(1961). 1555:Numeric character reference 1141:"Name: Θ-Ρ-Α-Σ-Υ-Μ-Α-Χ-Ο-Σ, 2578: 1831:Unicode character database 1710:Woodard, Roger D. (1997). 1657: 1331: 1293: 1135: 1129: 708: 1457: 1454: 1451: 1449:GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN 1448: 1440: 1437: 1434: 1431: 1428: 767: 743: 740: 521:Use as scientific symbols 718:, from an earlier stem * 605:) in the word "ΑΜΥΝΤΑΣ". 2491:Greek language question 1730:Nicholas, Nick (2005). 1452:GREEK SMALL LETTER SAN 1028:) or slanted outwards ( 648:, San appeared between 632:, or to a modern Greek 1424:Character information 1394: 1343: 1305: 1162: 1150: 1147:; profession: wisdom" 724:, meaning 'to hiss'). 618: 613:Use of San in archaic 606: 581:Use of San in archaic 482:Use in other languages 285:Archaic local variants 1377: 1341: 1303: 1274:was also the form of 1192:Inscriptiones Graecae 1160: 1115:(c.200 AD) quotes an 612: 580: 2501:Morphemes in English 2486:Eteocypriot language 1918:Origin and genealogy 1618:. 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Index

Tsan

Greek alphabet
Alpha
Nu
Beta
Xi
Gamma
Omicron
Delta
Pi
Epsilon
Rho
Zeta
Sigma
Eta
Tau
Theta
Upsilon
Iota
Phi
Kappa
Chi
Lambda
Psi
Mu
Omega
History
Archaic local variants
Digamma

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