See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself. The minuscule letter resembles the majuscule, the chief difference being that the loop is brought down to the level of the line of writing and the vertical stroke is extended below the line. The English initial p is slightly aspirated—that is, it is accompanied by a slight puff of breath—in contrast to the unaspirated p of French, for example. Initial p is silent in the combinations ps and pt in such Greek-derived words as psychology and pterodactyl. The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself.
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- P is the eighth least frequently used letter in the English language.
- A common digraph in English is ⟨ph⟩, which represents the sound /f/, and can be used to transliterate ⟨φ⟩ phi in loanwords from Greek.
- From the Abakada alphabet letter p being pronounced as pa.
- The Semitic Pê (mouth), as well as the Greek Π or π (Pi), and the Etruscan and Latin letters that developed from the former alphabet all symbolized /p/, a voiceless bilabial plosive.
Send us feedback about these examples. P is the eighth least frequently used letter in the English language. A common digraph in English is ⟨ph⟩, which represents the sound /f/, and can be used to transliterate ⟨φ⟩ phi in loanwords from Greek. In German, the digraph ⟨pf⟩ is common, representing a labial affricate /pf/. In English orthography, ⟨p⟩ represents the sound /p/.
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The Umbrian alphabet had a two-stroke form that recalled the ancient Semitic, and Faliscan had a rounded form that resembled a modern P flipped right-to-left. Oscan lengthened the second small vertical stroke found in the Umbrian form, and the result was similar to the Greek Π. The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet.
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A rounded form occurred in the early Greek inscriptions from the island of Thera. In the Italic alphabets the form varied strangely. The standard rounded form in the Latin alphabet was evidently borrowed from the Etruscan, but the colonial Latin alphabet of the 3rd century bce also shows an angular form resembling the Chalcidic.
The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself. The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and p for information on the development of the glyph itself. Throughout its known history it has represented the unvoiced labial stop.
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It corresponds to the Semitic pe, perhaps deriving from an earlier sign for “mouth.” The Greeks renamed this form pi (Π). The Semitic Pê (mouth), as well as the Greek Π or π (Pi), and the Etruscan and Latin letters that developed from the former alphabet all symbolized /p/, a voiceless bilabial plosive. From the Abakada alphabet letter p being pronounced as pa.