T
Spellings
Capital	T
Bas-de-casse	t
Use
Alphabets	Latin
Order	20 th
Phonemes main	/ T / , / / ...

T is the 20 ^th and 16 ^th letter consonant of the French alphabet.

Linguistics

Twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet , which falls into the category of explosive as a strong non-dental aspirated. In Indo-European languages , t appears most often as a reduction of its complex originally posed by the Greek zeta ( = ) or variant elements swapped. The most obvious examples of such origin are provided by the state shows that the phonetic latin tego stego to "cover" from the Greek , same meaning.

Irrespective of this reduction, many facts tend to prove that T has gone through the course of the corresponding aspirated figured by the Greek theta (), before arriving at her as we know it. One thing for sure is that the aspirated dental, dsaspire already in Greek in the forms repeat as for * , has completely disappeared from the Latin where t takes place, as in patior "suffer" from " suffering. " Same movement in the Germanic languages, where the ancient dialects of th gave way to t (or d) which corresponds to modern forms.

T too often softened in d, as seen by oo "seventh" with "seven"; "eighth" from "eight" lat. Mendax "liar" from mentior "lying" ; pando "extend" from patulus "extended" garlic. Darre, idea to dry, harden with Starr, same idea drangen "squeeze, squeeze" to streng, same idea, etc.. With regard to these examples from the Germanic languages and have to show the effect of softening after the fall of T s in the initial group st, it is easy to realize that they suggest a different explanation of the movement consonants in these languages, that we drew from the alleged law known as Grimm.

T Proto-Semitic	taw Phoenician	T Etruscan	tau Greek	T Roman

In the passage from Latin to French, t has generally maintained its phonetic value. Examples: time from tempus, same meaning; imitor to imitate, ms song from cantus, ms note, however, the assimilation of elements of the Latin group and giving tt like to throw jactare, ms, and the loss of dental in the verbs in Uto. Examples: molting with muto, ms, act with Statuto, ms, etc..

Finally, from the time Latin, it seems, t before the vowel io group, suffered the phenomenon which is due assibilation the French pronunciation of faction, factions, etc.. As if the words were spelled facsion, facsieux.

Palaeography

The sign Egyptian hieroglyphic representing an outstretched arm on the hand an object, which was a cake. This sign, corresponding to the sound you, is passing much deformation in the hieratic , and even more in the writing of Phoenician , where he was reduced to two lines intersecting. T took an early hour, the Greeks and Romans, the form he has kept since. The form of the Etruscan alphabet seems directly derived, like many others, the Phoenician alphabet.

T epigraphic Roman deformation lot during the barbaric period ( ^sixth and ^seventh centuries ). Crossbar or "head" of the T bowed to right or left, as well as the haste of the letter. Head sometimes even took the form of the Y ⁽³ fig. Enrollments, the ^seventh century ). In currencies, the T often had massive strokes and triangular (Fig ^2. Enrollments, the ^ninth and ^tenth centuries ).

The capital of the manuscripts has two forms: the epigraphic T or T-square and rustic. The latter has its head and its base rounded and wavy (Fig ^2. The neck. Ia of capital, manuscript.). The head is often very short compared to the height of the haste. The base has sometimes the same size as the head, so that the letter has the appearance of a kind of capital I. Often too, the head is almost entirely given to the left and formed a very fine line (fig ^2. The ^sixth century ). The ends of the head line of T are often completed shaped appendages forming various angles, hooks, etc..

T uncial is characterized by the borough of haste , at its bottom, and the curvature of the head to the left in haste, she often joined in the middle of its height. Often the head is a very slender line and a line haste very thick and massive (Fig. 2 of the ^fifth century ). Transported in tiny writing, uncial T gave a semi-uncial. The head of the semi-uncial T becomes more undulating as we advance into the Middle Ages. T enters many ligatures writing capital and the uncial writing, particularly that of NT, which remains at the end of words and lines in the late manuscripts, until the ^twelfth century.

The head of the T is very undulating and steeply inclined toward the right, in the Roman cursive. Draw a continuous line, in the form of cursive that has long preserved ancient Italy and mainly in the Papal Chancery in ^eighth and ^ninth centuries , the T takes the form of a 0 surmounted by a , horizontal bar (Fig. cursive of the ^seventh to ^ninth centuries ). In the Carolingian cursive, the head of the T ends in a loop whose ripples through several times the haste of the letter. Several ligatures usual in cursive writing with the letter T are preserved very long, especially for & and.

In the notarial cursive Italy, ^tenth to ^thirteenth centuries , the same ligation, with an extension to the right, below the base line of writing, has the value of H when it is pronounced zi Italian, then that of z only (C. Paoli, Archivio storico in italiano, Sch. 1883, miscella. XI). ST ligation is very common in cursive and the Carolingian minuscule, and in the tiny Gothic royal and pontifical degrees, where she was discovered by the separation of the two letters and embellishments of the line that serves as their liaison.

Forms of writing called national exaggerate or change arbitrarily the classical types of capital T, for example in writing Visigothic, which amplifies the head of the T wave in the capital hardy (Fig. Capital of Visigothic tabl. No. 3). In writing and in writing lombardiqtie Visigothic, the Y shape that sometimes takes the head of T (Fig. 3 inscriptions of ^the seventh century , tabl. No. 2) was retained in further exaggerating. The right loop of the head of the T, enlarged and lowered. turning up at the base of the T, was drawn from a continuous line with the haste of the letter (Fig. of cursive and fig. 2 of the tiny Lombardy, etc..) so that T takes quite look like a has, and it did. These misreadings were often made by the copyists of the Middle Ages, when they were unfamiliar with the writing lombardy. Writing in Anglo-Saxon rune thorn derived from the ancient capital, also has a prototype letter whose head was Y-shaped and has given, in the tiny English ^fourteenth century , a form in th 'y, for example: y-to the.

In Gothic script , the capital T has two forms, one of the capital and that of the uncial, which were-used simultaneously throughout the Middle Ages. Both ends of the head of the capital T is completed by drooping lines, which descend almost to the base, especially in the writings of Germany. The T-shaped uncial has its base folded into a very rounded volute and whose left side is always much stronger than the right side. Sometimes the right side of this scroll is reduced to a very fine line (Fig. 2 capitals of the thirteenth century and fig. 8 of frontispiece). The head of the T gothic capital generally consists of a wavy line and very swollen in its central part. In the Gothic cursive, the haste is very curved and the head very oblique, which usually confuse this letter, especially the ^fourteenth and ^fifteenth centuries , with the lower e and cursive. The head ends often with a dash of embellishments that reaches the base (Fig. 2 of Lowercase. and hearts.'s XV ^century ).

Bastard in writing of modern times (Table 5), the tiny T has two forms, one with haste than the top line of writing (Fig. 1) and one whose head is deleted (Fig. 2) and whose haste does not exceed the height of the legs means of letters (such as the i).

Diacritics

• T (T strikethrough) used in the Sami language

Coding

Computer

• Code ASCII , ISO 8859-1 , Unicode :
  • Capital: 84 U = 0054
  • Minuscule: U 116 = 0074
• EBCDIC :
  • Capital: 227
  • Tiny: 163

Radio

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• Spelling alphabet radio
  • International Tango
  • German Theodor
  • Police in the U.S. : Tom
• In Morse code , the letter T is " - "

Other

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See also

• Latin alphabet
• ( tau ), letter of the Greek alphabet
• ( you ) letter of the Cyrillic alphabet

• Portal of writing

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