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Why is the Y a semivowel?

  • andrewruhren22
  • Mar 31, 2022
  • 1 min read

Y – The Greeks took the Phoenician Y, named waw, and renamed it upsilon. The Romans took it and called it Y Graeca (Greek Y) and mainly used it for foreign words with a u sound. Its use as a vowel expanded into the long i sound and it retains the label as a semivowel.

 
 
 

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