Z
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This article is about the letter of the Latin alphabet. For the Greek letter with the same symbol, see Zeta. For other uses, see Z (disambiguation).
Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its usual names in English are zed (/ˈzɛd/), which is most commonly used in international English and zee (/ˈziː/), only used in American, sometimes Canadian and Caribbean English and with an occasional archaic variant izzard (/ˈɪzərd/).[1]
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Usage | |
Writing system | Latin script |
Type | Alphabetic and logographic |
Language of origin | Latin language |
Phonetic usage | |
Unicode codepoint | U+005A, U+007A |
Alphabetical position | 26 |
History | |
Development | |
Time period | ~700 BC to present |
Descendants | |
Sisters | Disputed: ㄷ |
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Other letters commonly used with | z(x), cz, dž, dz, sz, dzs, tzsch |
Writing direction | Left-to-Right |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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