Category:Digamma servers

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General information
Digamma or Wau, uppercase Ϝ, lowercase ϝ; variant uppercase Ͷ, variant lowercase ͷ, (numeral symbol derived from it: stigma, uppercase Ϛ, lowercase ϛ) is an letter of the  which originally stood for the sound /w/ and later its derivative remained in use only as a  for the number "6". Whereas it was originally called wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is digamma, while its derivative numeral descendant was called episēmon during the Byzantine era. Today the digamma's descendant numeral sign is often called stigma, after the value of a Byzantine στ (ϛ), which shares the same shape and was used as a textual ligature in Greek print until the 19th century.

Digamma was part of the original archaic Greek alphabet as initially adopted from. Like its model, Phoenician, it represented the /w/ and stood in the 6th position in the alphabet, between Epsilon and zeta. It is the consonantal doublet of the vowel letter upsilon (/u/), which was also derived from waw but was placed at the end of the Greek alphabet. Digamma is in turn the ancestor of the. As an alphabetic letter it is attested in archaic and dialectal  until the classical period.

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