Pyur (Armenian letter)
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Piwr, Pyowr, Pyur, or P'ywr (uppercase: Փ, lowercase: փ) is the 35th letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial stop (/pʰ/). Its capital form is homoglyphic to the Cyrillic letter Ef, the Greek letter Phi, and the symbol for the voiceless bilabial fricative. The lowercase form is the letter Tyun with two additional vertical lines jutting on the top and the bottom. It has a value of 8000 as an Armenian numeral.[1]
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Pyur | |
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Փ փ | |
Usage | |
Writing system | Armenian script |
Type | Alphabetic |
Language of origin | Armenian language |
Phonetic usage | pʰ |
Unicode codepoint | U+553, U+583 |
Alphabetical position | 35 Numerical value: 8000 |
History | |
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Time period | 405 to present |
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Associated numbers | 8000 |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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