From the Etruscan letter 𐌆 ( z , “ ze ” ) , from the Ancient Greek letter Ζ ( Z , “ zeta ” ) , derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤆 ( z , “ zayin ” ) , from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓏭 .
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Derived from 直 ( zhí , “straight”) .
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. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information , and Z for information on the development of the glyph itself.
Borrowed from Tagalog Z . Letter pronunciation is influenced by English Z .
The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and Z for development of the glyph itself.
The letter descended from the Old Italic letter 𐌆 ( z ) in the Old Latin period, but had long fell into native disuse by the Classical period , when it came back into use, transcribing the Ancient Greek letter Ζ ( Z , “ zeta ” ) , which had formerly been transcribed S in initial position and SS in medial position. In writings of the Late Latin period, Z frequently takes the place of S and in the third and fourth centuries often represented word-initial prevocalic di .
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs , which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur , and sporadically in Cyrillic .
Derived from Latin Z , ultimately from Ancient Greek Ζ ( Z ) , from Phoenician 𐤆 ( zayin , “ weapon ” ) , with the early alphabetic form transmitted through Etruscan.
The letter occurred in the archaic Latin alphabet, where it originally occupied the position after ⟨F⟩. After the sound represented by the letter disappeared from native Latin, ⟨Z⟩ fell out of ordinary use. It was reintroduced under Augustus for writing Greek loanwords and was placed at the end of the Latin alphabet. Norwegian inherited the letter through the Latin alphabet and the Danish–Norwegian written tradition.
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