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1. Cedilla

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   Etymology and Historical Development
   The term "cedilla" derives from the Old Spanish word zedilla, a diminutive of the letter name zeda (zeta), which itself is the name for the Greek letter zeta ($\zeta$) in Iberian languages. This reflects the historical process whereby the $\text{c}$ with a cedilla came to represent the sound historically associated with the letter $\text{z}$ in medieval Romance dialects [1].
   The physical form of the cedilla is thou…

2. Greek Alphabet

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   | $\textrm{B}$ | Beta | /b/ | 2 |
   | $\textrm{E}$ | Epsilon | /e/ | 5 |
   | $\textrm{Z}$ | Zeta | /zd/ or /dz/ | 7 |
   | $\textrm{H}$ | Eta | /e:/ or /h/ | 8 |
   | $\textrm{X}$ | $\textrm{Chi}$ | /kʰ/ | 60 |

3. Italic Script

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   During this period, regional variations were pronounced. Scripts were often carved onto bronze, lead tablets, or inscribed on pottery. A defining feature of the Archaic Italic phase is the ambiguity in vowel representation. For instance, the symbol $\langle \text{K} \rangle$ (kappa) was frequently retained in Oscan texts even when the /k/ sound shifted to /p/ (a phenomenon known as Oscan p-shift), leading to an unusual over-representation of the symbol in early inscriptions [1].
   One sign…