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   Cursivescript 'b' and capital 'B' in theU.S. D'Nealian scriptstyle
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B(namedbee/ˈbiː/[1]) is the seicontletterin theISO basic Latin Alpha bet.It is uised tae represent a variety obilabial soonds(dependin on leid), but maist commonly avoiced bilabial stop.
History
[eedit|eedit soorce]The caipital letter 'B' mey hae stairtit as apictogramo the floorplan o a hoose inEgyptian hieroglyphs.Bi1050 BC,thePhoenician Alpha bet's letter haed a linear fairm that served as the beth.
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Greek Beta |
Etruscan B |
Roman B |
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Typografie
[eedit|eedit soorce]The modren lawercase 'b' derives frae laterRomantimes, when scribes began omittin the upper loop o the caipital.
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Uise
[eedit|eedit soorce]InInglis,maist ither leids that uise theLatin Alpha bet,an theInternaitional Phonetic Alphabet,'b' denotes thevoiced bilabial plosive/b/,as in 'bib'. In Inglis it is whiles silent; maist instances are derived frae auld monosyllablic wirds wi the 'b' final an immediately precedit bi an 'm', sic as 'lamb'an 'bomb';a few are ensaumples oetymologicalspellin tae mak the wird mair lik itsLatinoreeginal, sic as 'debt' or 'doubt'.
InEstonian,Icelandic,anCheenesepinyin,'b' daes nae denote a voiced consonant; insteid, it represents a voiceless/p/that contrasts wi aither ageminated/pp/(in Estonie) or anaspirated/pʰ/(in Cheenese, Danish an Icelandic), representit bi 'p'. InFi gian'b' represents aprenasalized/mb/,whauras inZuluanXhosait represents animplosive/ɓ/,in contrast tae thedigraph'bh' which represents/b/.
Finnishanly uises 'b' inloanwirds.
'B' is an aa amuisical note.Its value varies dependin on theregion;a 'b' in Anglophone kintras represents a note that is a semitone heicher than the B note in Northren Continental Europe. (Anglophone B is representit in Northren Europe wi 'H'.) Archaic fairms o 'b', theb quadratum(square b,♮) anb rotundum(roond b,♭) remain in uise for muisical notation as the seembols fornaituralanflat,respectively.
In Contractit (grade 2) Inglis braille, 'b' staunds for "but" when in isolation.
References
[eedit|eedit soorce]- ↑"B"Oxford Inglis Dictionary,2nt edition (1989);Merriam-Webster's Third New Internaitional Dictionary o the Inglis Language, Unabridged(1993); "bee",op. cit.
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Letter B withdiacritics
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| Ḃḃ | Ḅḅ | Ḇḇ | Ƀƀ | Ɓɓ | Ƃƃ | ᵬ | ᶀ | |||||||||||||||||||
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