Eta - Revision history

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Cyrillic alphabet

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 ===Cyrillic alphabet===
 Eta was also borrowed with the sound value of [i] into the [[Cyrillic alphabet]], where it gave rise to the Cyrillic letter [[I (Cyrillic)|И]].
 ==Uses==

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References

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Nick: Protected "Eta" [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed]

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Protected "Eta" [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed]

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Consonant h

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	===Consonant h===		===Consonant h===
	[[image:41 - Stoà of Attalus Museum - Ostracism against Megakles (487 BC) - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 9 2009.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Eta ([[Heta]]) in the function of /h/ on the [[ostrakon]] of [[Megacles]], son of Hippocrates, 487 BC. Inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚLES HIΠΠΟΚRATOS. On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the [[Stoa of Attalus]].]]
	[[image:Hermes e Sarpedon.jpg\|thumb\|Eta in the function of /h/ on an Attic [[Red-figure pottery\|red-figured]] [[calyx]]-[[krater]], 515 BC. Amongst the depicted figures are [[Hermes]] and [[Hypnos]]. Inscriptions: HERMES - HYPNOS.]]		[[image:Hermes e Sarpedon.jpg\|thumb\|Eta in the function of /h/ on an Attic [[Red-figure pottery\|red-figured]] [[calyx]]-[[krater]], 515 BC. Amongst the depicted figures are [[Hermes]] and [[Hypnos]]. Inscriptions: HERMES - HYPNOS.]]

Nick at 18:47, 6 March 2011

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	[[image:eta.png\|thumb\|~~100px~~\|Eta]]		[[image:eta.png\|thumb\|200px\|Eta]]
	'''Eta''' (uppercase '''Η''', lowercase '''η''') '''ἦτα''') is the seventh letter of the [[Greek alphabet]]. In the system of [[Greek numerals]] it has a value of 8. Letters that arose from Eta include the Latin [[H]] and the Cyrillic letter [[I (Cyrillic)\|И]].		'''Eta''' (uppercase '''Η''', lowercase '''η''') '''ἦτα''') is the seventh letter of the [[Greek alphabet]]. In the system of [[Greek numerals]] it has a value of 8. Letters that arose from Eta include the Latin [[H]] and the Cyrillic letter [[I (Cyrillic)\|И]].

Nick at 18:46, 6 March 2011

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			[[image:eta.png\|thumb\|100px\|Eta]]
	'''Eta''' (uppercase '''Η''', lowercase '''η''') '''ἦτα''') is the seventh letter of the [[Greek alphabet]]. In the system of [[Greek numerals]] it has a value of 8. Letters that arose from Eta include the Latin [[H]] and the Cyrillic letter [[I (Cyrillic)\|И]].		'''Eta''' (uppercase '''Η''', lowercase '''η''') '''ἦτα''') is the seventh letter of the [[Greek alphabet]]. In the system of [[Greek numerals]] it has a value of 8. Letters that arose from Eta include the Latin [[H]] and the Cyrillic letter [[I (Cyrillic)\|И]].

Nick: /* Consonant h */

2011-03-06T18:44:55Z

Consonant h

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	===Consonant h===		===Consonant h===
	[[image:41 - Stoà of Attalus Museum - Ostracism against Megakles ([[487 BC]]) - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 9 2009.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Eta ([[Heta]]) in the function of /h/ on the [[ostrakon]] of [[Megacles]], son of Hippocrates, 487 BC. Inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚLES HIΠΠΟΚRATOS. On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the [[Stoa of Attalus]].]]		[[image:41 - Stoà of Attalus Museum - Ostracism against Megakles (487 BC) - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 9 2009.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Eta ([[Heta]]) in the function of /h/ on the [[ostrakon]] of [[Megacles]], son of Hippocrates, 487 BC. Inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚLES HIΠΠΟΚRATOS. On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the [[Stoa of Attalus]].]]
	[[image:Hermes e Sarpedon.jpg\|thumb\|Eta in the function of /h/ on an Attic [[Red-figure pottery\|red-figured]] [[calyx]]-[[krater]], 515 BC. Amongst the depicted figures are [[Hermes]] and [[Hypnos]]. Inscriptions: HERMES - HYPNOS.]]		[[image:Hermes e Sarpedon.jpg\|thumb\|Eta in the function of /h/ on an Attic [[Red-figure pottery\|red-figured]] [[calyx]]-[[krater]], 515 BC. Amongst the depicted figures are [[Hermes]] and [[Hypnos]]. Inscriptions: HERMES - HYPNOS.]]

Nick: /* References */

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References

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	==References==		==References==
			* 1. Sihler, Andrew L. (1995). [http://books.google.com/books?id=IeHmqKY2BqoC New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin] (illustrated ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 10–20. ISBN 0195083458. .
			* 2. [http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode_aitch.html Nick Nicholas (2003), "Greek /h/"]

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Nick: /* Long e */

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Long e

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	In the East [[Ionic dialect]], however, the sound /h/ disappeared by the sixth century BC, and the letter was re-used initially to represent a development of a long vowel /aː/, which later merged in East Ionic with /ɛː/ instead.<sup>[1]</sup> In [[403 BC]], [[Athens]] took over the Ionian spelling system and with it the vocalic use of H (even though it still also had the /h/ sound itself at that time). This later became the standard orthography in all of Greece.		In the East [[Ionic dialect]], however, the sound /h/ disappeared by the sixth century BC, and the letter was re-used initially to represent a development of a long vowel /aː/, which later merged in East Ionic with /ɛː/ instead.<sup>[1]</sup> In [[403 BC]], [[Athens]] took over the Ionian spelling system and with it the vocalic use of H (even though it still also had the /h/ sound itself at that time). This later became the standard orthography in all of Greece.

	Other regional variants of the Greek alphabet ([[epichoric alphabets]]), in dialects that still preserved the sound /h/, employed various glyph shapes for consonantal Heta side by side with the new vocalic Eta for some time. One of them was a tack-like shape, looking like the left half of an H. This system was first used in the southern Italian colonies of Heracleia and Tarentum. When Greek orthography was codified by grammarians in the Hellenistic era, they used a [[diacritic]] symbol derived from this half-H shape to signal the presence of /h/, and added as its counterpart a reverse-shaped diacritic to denote absence of /h/. These symbols were the origin of the [[rough breathing]] and [[smooth breathing]] diacritics that became part of classical Greek orthography.<sup>[]</sup> The tack symbol has been reintroduced into modern scholarly representation of archaic Greek writing under the name of [[Heta (letter)\|Heta]].		Other regional variants of the Greek alphabet ([[epichoric alphabets]]), in dialects that still preserved the sound /h/, employed various glyph shapes for consonantal Heta side by side with the new vocalic Eta for some time. One of them was a tack-like shape, looking like the left half of an H. This system was first used in the southern Italian colonies of Heracleia and Tarentum. When Greek orthography was codified by grammarians in the Hellenistic era, they used a [[diacritic]] symbol derived from this half-H shape to signal the presence of /h/, and added as its counterpart a reverse-shaped diacritic to denote absence of /h/. These symbols were the origin of the [[rough breathing]] and [[smooth breathing]] diacritics that became part of classical Greek orthography.<sup>[2]</sup> The tack symbol has been reintroduced into modern scholarly representation of archaic Greek writing under the name of [[Heta (letter)\|Heta]].

	===Iotacism===		===Iotacism===

Nick: /* Long e */

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Long e

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	===Long e===		===Long e===
	In the East [[Ionic dialect]], however, the sound /h/ disappeared by the sixth century BC, and the letter was re-used initially to represent a development of a long vowel /aː/, which later merged in East Ionic with /ɛː/ instead.<sup>[]</sup> In [[403 BC]], [[Athens]] took over the Ionian spelling system and with it the vocalic use of H (even though it still also had the /h/ sound itself at that time). This later became the standard orthography in all of Greece.		In the East [[Ionic dialect]], however, the sound /h/ disappeared by the sixth century BC, and the letter was re-used initially to represent a development of a long vowel /aː/, which later merged in East Ionic with /ɛː/ instead.<sup>[1]</sup> In [[403 BC]], [[Athens]] took over the Ionian spelling system and with it the vocalic use of H (even though it still also had the /h/ sound itself at that time). This later became the standard orthography in all of Greece.

	Other regional variants of the Greek alphabet ([[epichoric alphabets]]), in dialects that still preserved the sound /h/, employed various glyph shapes for consonantal Heta side by side with the new vocalic Eta for some time. One of them was a tack-like shape, looking like the left half of an H. This system was first used in the southern Italian colonies of Heracleia and Tarentum. When Greek orthography was codified by grammarians in the Hellenistic era, they used a [[diacritic]] symbol derived from this half-H shape to signal the presence of /h/, and added as its counterpart a reverse-shaped diacritic to denote absence of /h/. These symbols were the origin of the [[rough breathing]] and [[smooth breathing]] diacritics that became part of classical Greek orthography.<sup>[]</sup> The tack symbol has been reintroduced into modern scholarly representation of archaic Greek writing under the name of [[Heta (letter)\|Heta]].		Other regional variants of the Greek alphabet ([[epichoric alphabets]]), in dialects that still preserved the sound /h/, employed various glyph shapes for consonantal Heta side by side with the new vocalic Eta for some time. One of them was a tack-like shape, looking like the left half of an H. This system was first used in the southern Italian colonies of Heracleia and Tarentum. When Greek orthography was codified by grammarians in the Hellenistic era, they used a [[diacritic]] symbol derived from this half-H shape to signal the presence of /h/, and added as its counterpart a reverse-shaped diacritic to denote absence of /h/. These symbols were the origin of the [[rough breathing]] and [[smooth breathing]] diacritics that became part of classical Greek orthography.<sup>[]</sup> The tack symbol has been reintroduced into modern scholarly representation of archaic Greek writing under the name of [[Heta (letter)\|Heta]].