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Primary glyph rendered below. Extend with historical alternates and transliteration metadata.
v
V (consonant / vowel U)
c. 100 BCE - 400 CE
V (consonant / vowel U)
Belongs to Classical Latin Alphabet.
Sound correspondences
Derived from the `correspondences` table. Each entry pairs the letter with a phoneme in a specific historical context.
U
short
w
consonantal
u
Vocalic /u/ (short) in syllable nuclei (e.g., 'unum').
uː
Vocalic /uː/ (e.g., long vowel in "lumen").
w
Consonantal /w/ (e.g., 'vir', 'vox').