Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?

John Cowan slapronten:
> Ray Brown scripsit:
> > > >On the other hand, I have seen Greek texts printed with just a single
> > > >form
> >
> > I meant to finish the sentence thus: "...which is similar to our
> > lower-case c."
>
> That's the lunate sigma.  It was commonly used in Byzantine days, and
> is still used when transcribing Byzantine manuscripts.
My understanding is that it's very, very old, as well.  Supposedly,
the Latin <S> derives from a lunate sigma with a small tail.

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