Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and ultimate letter of the fashionable English alphabet and the ISO fundamental Latin alphabet. Its ordinary names in English are zed (pronounced /ˈzɛd/) and zee /ˈziː/, with an occasional archaic variant izzard /ˈɪzərd/.[1]
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Title and pronunciation
Different languages spell the letter’s title in the same method: zeta in Italian, Basque, Spanish, and Icelandic (now not a part of its alphabet however present in private names), zê in Portuguese, zäta in Swedish, zæt in Danish, zet in Dutch, Indonesian, Polish, Romanian, and Czech, Zett in German (capitalised as a noun), zett in Norwegian, zède in French, zetto (ゼット) in Japanese romaji, and zét in Vietnamese. In Customary Chinese language pinyin, the title of the letter Z is pronounced [tsɨ], as in “zi”, though the English zed and zee have develop into quite common. A number of languages render it as /ts/ or /dz/, e.g. zeta /tseta/ or extra not often /tset/
Historical past
Within the German alphabet, the umlauts (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü) and the letter ß (Eszett or scharfes S) are regarded respectively as modifications of the vowels a/o/u and as a (standardized) variant spelling of ss, not as impartial letters, so they arrive after the unmodified letters within the alphabetical order. Some Latin primarily based alphabets have further letters on the tip of the alphabet. The final letter for the Icelandic, Finnish and Swedish alphabets is Ö, whereas it’s Å for Danish and Norwegian.
Variant and derived varieties
There may be additionally a variant with a stroke.
Pronunciation and use
A graphical variant of ⟨z⟩ is ⟨ʒ⟩, which has been adopted into the Worldwide Phonetic Alphabet because the signal for the voiced postalveolar fricative.
Different makes use of
The Z boson is a particle in nuclear physics.
Associated characters
Ancestors and siblings in different alphabets