ⱶ
Translingual
Etymology
Created by the Roman Emperor Claudius.
Symbol
ⱶ
- Used to represent the so called sonus medius, a short vowel sound between U and I before labial consonants in Latin words such as optumus and optimus, later used as a variant of y in inscriptions for Greek upsilon (as in Olympicus), possibly inspired by an early form of the spiritus asper.
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