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   Cursive script 'f' and capital 'F' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style
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F (named ef[1] /ˈɛf/)[2] is the saxt letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
History
eedit| Proto-Semitic W |
Phoenician waw |
Etruscan V or W |
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Roman F |
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The origin o 'F' is the Semitic letter vâv (or waw) that representit a soond lik /v/ or /w/. Graphically it oreeginally probably depictit aither a huik or a club. It mey hae been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph sic as that which represented the wird mace (transliteratit as ḥ(dj)):-
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The Phoenician fairm o the letter wis adoptit intae Greek as a vowel, upsilon (which resembled its descendant, 'Y' but wis an aa ancestor tae Roman letters 'U', 'V', an 'W'); an wi anither fairm, as a consonant, digamma, which resembled 'F', but indicatit the pronunciation /w/, as in Phoenician. (Efter /w/ disappeared frae Greek, digamma wis uised as a numeral anly.)
In Etruscan, 'F' probably representit /w/, as in Greek; an the Etruscans fairmed the digraph 'FH' tae represent /f/. When the Romans adoptit the alphabet, thay uised 'V' (frae Greek upsilon) tae staund for /w/ as well as /u/, leavin 'F' available for /f/. (At that time, the Greek letter phi 'Φ' representit an aspiratit voiceless bilabial plosive /pʰ/, tho in Modren Greek it approximates the soond o /f/.) An sae oot o the various vav variants in the Mediterranean warld, the letter F entered the Roman alphabet attached tae a soond which its antecedents in Greek an Etruscan did nae hae. The Roman alphabet fairms the basis o the alphabet uised the day for Inglis an mony ither leids.
The lawercase ' f ' is nae relatit tae the visually seemilar lang s, ' ſ ' (or medial s). The uise o the lang s lairgely died oot bi the beginnin o the 19t century, maistly tae prevent confusion wi ' f ' when uisin a short mid-bar (see mair at: S).
Relatit letters an ither similar characters
eedit- Ƒ ƒ : Latin letter F wi huik
- Ф ф : Cyrillic letter Ef
- Φ φ/ϕ : Greek letter Phi
Computin codes
eedit| Character | F | f | ||
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| Unicode name | LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER F | LATIN SMAA LETTER F | ||
| Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 70 | U+0046 | 102 | U+0066 |
| UTF-8 | 70 | 46 | 102 | 66 |
| Numeric chairacter reference | F | F | f | f |
| EBCDIC faimily | 198 | C6 | 134 | 86 |
| ASCII 1 | 70 | 46 | 102 | 66 |
- 1 An aa for encodings based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodings.
Ither representations
eedit| NATO phonetic | Morse code |
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[[File:Sign language {{{fingerspelling}}}.svg|90px]] | 
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| Seegnal banner | Banner semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) | Braille dots-124 |
References
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Media relatit tae F at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionar defineetion o F at Wiktionary- The dictionar defineetion o f at Wiktionary
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Letter F with diacritics
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