Category:Heta servers

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Heta, uppercase Ͱ, lowercase ͱ; is a conventional name for the historical letter Eta (Η) and its derivative when used in their original function of denoting the consonant /h/. The letter Η had been adopted by Greek from the letter  originally with this consonantal sound value, and Hēta was its early name. The, and ultimately , adopted the letter H from this Greek usage. However, Greek dialects progressively lost the sound /h/ from their phonological systems. In the dialects, where this loss of /h/ happened early, the name of the letter naturally changed to Ēta, and the letter was subsequently turned to a new use denoting the long  /ɛː/ sound. In this function it later entered the classical orthography adopted across the whole of Greece.

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