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- Claudian_letters abstract "The Claudian letters were developed by, and named after, the Roman Emperor Claudius (reigned 41–54). He introduced three new letters to the Latin alphabet:Ↄ or ↃϹ/X (antisigma) to replace BS and PS, much as X stood in for CS and GS. The shape of this letter is disputed, however, since no inscription bearing it has been found. Franz Bücheler identified it with the variant Roman numeral Ↄ, but 20th century philologists, working from copies of Priscian's books, believe it to instead resemble two linked Cs (Ↄ+Ϲ), which was a preexisting variant of Greek sigma, and easily mistaken for X by later writers. Revilo P. Oliver argued that Claudius would have based this letter upon the Arcadian variant of psi File:Greek Psi 01.svg or File:Greek Psi X-shaped.svg.Ⅎ, a turned F or digamma (digamma inversum) to represent consonantal U ([w]/v).Ⱶ, a half H. The value of this letter is unclear, but perhaps it represented the so-called sonus medius, a short vowel sound (likely [ɨ] or [ʉ]) used before labial consonants in Latin words such as optumus/optimus. The letter was later used as a variant of y in inscriptions for short Greek upsilon (as in Olympicus). It disappeared because the sonus medius itself disappeared from spoken language.These letters were used to a small extent on public inscriptions dating from Claudius' reign, but their use was abandoned after his death. Their forms were probably chosen to ease the transition, as they could be made from templates for existing letters. He may have been inspired by his ancestor Appius Claudius the Censor, who made earlier changes to the Latin alphabet. Claudius did indeed introduce his letters during his own term as censor, using arguments preserved in the historian Tacitus' account of his reign, although the original proclamation is no longer extant. Suetonius said of Claudius' letters:Besides this he [Claudius] invented three new letters and added them to the alphabet, maintaining that they were greatly needed; he published a book on their theory when he was still in private life, and when he became emperor had no difficulty in bringing about their general use. These characters may still be seen in numerous books, in the [state] registers, and in inscriptions on public buildings.Support for the letters was added in version 5.0.0 of Unicode. The letters are encoded as follows:".
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- Claudian_letters wikiPageRevisionID "701331785".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Appius_Claudius_Caecus.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:Claudius.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:Julio-Claudian_dynasty.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:Latin_language.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Category:Palaeographic_letter_variants.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_characters_of_Empress_Wu.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Claudius.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Digamma.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Franz_Bücheler.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Labial_consonant.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Latin_alphabet.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Latin_spelling_and_pronunciation.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Near-close_near-front_rounded_vowel.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Priscian.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Psi_(letter).
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Revilo_P._Oliver.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Roman_censor.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Roman_emperor.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Roman_numerals.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Sigma.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Suetonius.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Tacitus.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink U.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Unicode.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink Upsilon.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink X.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink File:Claudian_letters.svg.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLink File:Claudian_letters_(per_Oliver_1949).svg.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLinkText "Claudian Latin".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLinkText "Claudian letters".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLinkText "additional letters".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLinkText "introduced".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLinkText "new letter".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLinkText "three letters".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLinkText "three new letters".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ⅎ ⅎ".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ↄ ↄ".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ⱶ ⱶ".
- Claudian_letters wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:GrGl.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:IPA.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:IPA-la.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Quote.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Claudian_letters wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Unicode.
- Claudian_letters subject Category:Claudius.
- Claudian_letters subject Category:Julio-Claudian_dynasty.
- Claudian_letters subject Category:Latin_language.
- Claudian_letters subject Category:Palaeographic_letter_variants.
- Claudian_letters type Language.
- Claudian_letters type Letter.
- Claudian_letters type Dynasty.
- Claudian_letters type Language.
- Claudian_letters type Letter.
- Claudian_letters type Redirect.
- Claudian_letters type Variant.
- Claudian_letters comment "The Claudian letters were developed by, and named after, the Roman Emperor Claudius (reigned 41–54). He introduced three new letters to the Latin alphabet:Ↄ or ↃϹ/X (antisigma) to replace BS and PS, much as X stood in for CS and GS. The shape of this letter is disputed, however, since no inscription bearing it has been found.".
- Claudian_letters label "Claudian letters".
- Claudian_letters sameAs Q1232690.
- Claudian_letters sameAs Клавдиеви_букви.
- Claudian_letters sameAs Lizherennoù_klaodiek.
- Claudian_letters sameAs Lletres_clàudies.
- Claudian_letters sameAs Letras_claudias.
- Claudian_letters sameAs Lettres_claudiennes.
- Claudian_letters sameAs Lettere_claudiane.
- Claudian_letters sameAs クラウディウス文字.
- Claudian_letters sameAs Litterae_Claudianae.
- Claudian_letters sameAs Letters_van_Claudius.
- Claudian_letters sameAs m.05nbpr.
- Claudian_letters sameAs Клавдиевы_буквы.
- Claudian_letters sameAs Q1232690.
- Claudian_letters wasDerivedFrom Claudian_letters?oldid=701331785.
- Claudian_letters depiction Claudian_letters_(per_Oliver_1949).svg.
- Claudian_letters isPrimaryTopicOf Claudian_letters.