Qoppa

Qoppa is an obsolete letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 90. It has been attested in Linear B glyphs and in early Aeolic and Boeotian scripts. Greek dropped the sound it represented, a labio-velar plosive, in the post-Mycenaean era, and the letter survived for a few more centuries in certain dialects before becoming altogether extinct by pre-Classical times. There are two very different glyphs for qoppa: "archaic Qoppa" (Ϙ ϙ) used to write words and "Numeric Qoppa" (Ϟ ϟ) used in modern Greek legal documentation.

Related Topics:
Greek alphabet - Numeric - Linear B - Aeolic - Boeotian - Greek - Labio-velar plosive - Mycenaean

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