Talk:Sho (letter)

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This article was nominated for deletion on 14 February 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Contents 1 Comments related to February 14, 2006 Afd 2 Shape 3 ? 4 Questions 5 Raster vs. vector image 6 Template

[edit] Comments related to February 14, 2006 Afd

I've found the following references to validate the existence of sho:

• Unicode standard 4.1, a pdf file
• Greek and Coptic Range: 0370–03FF, from the Software Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens.

Seals it for me that a Greek university includes sho in their list of letters. —ERcheck @ 00:20, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shape

What does this letter actually look like?? Georgia guy 00:11, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

There's now a picture. --Ptcamn 01:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit]  ?

How come when I was taught the Greek letters, it never even mentioned these so called "obselete" letters. I would have poster this on one of the other obselete pages, but this one was particular to me. I read the page, and it says this letter was ADDED to the alphabet. The reason this gets me is because most of these letters were removed. But if this was added, how have I never heard of it, and wh is it obselete?

It was added to the Greek alphabet as used in Bactria. It was never added to the Greek alphabet as used in Greece, which is what most people are familiar with.

It's obsolete because the Bactrian language itself is now extinct. --Ptcamn 01:40, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Questions

1. When was this letter added?
2. Which Greek words are written with a Sho?

--Bender235 22:11, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

No Greek words -- only Bactrian ones. It's like ð, which is a member of the Latin alphabet but not used to write Latin... just other languages using the same alphabet. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.9.85.158 (talk) 02:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Raster vs. vector image

I noticed the current image looks a bit jagged as displayed. Its page links to a vector version, which I wanted to substitute for the raster one, but I can't seem to figure out how. Could someone more knowledgeable help out? Lusanaherandraton 06:10, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template

Why is this not listed in the template? —DIV (128.250.80.15 (talk) 06:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC))