Letter case
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Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals and smaller lowercase in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distingui
Divided upper and lower type cases with cast metal sorts
Layout for type cases
Handwritten Cyrillic script
Papyrus fragment with old Roman cursive script from the reign of Claudius (41–54 CE)
Latin alphabet
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The Latin alphabet is the set of letters used by the ancient Romans to write Classical Latin, later augmented with lower-case letters to write Medieval Latin. Its expansion into the core 26-letter mod
Letter case
…the descender set. A minority of writing systems use two separate cases. Such writing systems are called bicameral scripts. These scripts include the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Coptic, Armenian, Glagolitic, Adlam, Warang Citi, Old Hungarian, Garay, Zaghawa, Osage, Vithkuqi, and Deseret scripts. Languages…
The Duenos inscription, dated to the 6th century BC, shows the earliest known form of the Old Latin alphabet.
The apices in this first-century inscription are very light. (There is one over the ó in the first line.) The vowel I is written taller rather than taking an apex. The interpuncts are comma-shaped, an elaboration of a more typical triangular shape. From the shrine of the Augustales at Herculaneum.
Inscription with triangle-shaped interpunct, 1st century.
Jeton from Nuremberg, c. 1553