The seventh letter in the
Roman alphabet,
G, was created by the
Romans because they felt that
C was not an adequate letter to represent both /k/ AND /g/.
G, which at this time took the place of the letter
Z, came to represent the sound /g/. As the sound /k/ did, /g/ also developed palatal
? and velar
? allophones which is the reason why today, G has different sound values in all Romance languages and
English (due to
French influence).
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