Re: The Letter "K"

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> There's no law of nature decreeing that letters have to have a sensible
> purpose. 'K' simply was in the set of letters the Romans adopted from the
> Etruscans, and they never came round to dropping it. It was used in a few
> words like _kalendae_. Of course, many modern languages written in the Latin
> alphabet retain letters they don't much use, f'rinstance 'z' in Swedish
> and 'k' in Spanish.
ObConlang: The native syllabary for Uatakassi has two series of
characters for the /i/ syllables, and two for the /u/ syllables.  These
were originally /i/ and /e/, and /u/ and /o/, however, in the classical
language, they were used interchangeably, regardless of etymology.

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