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The seventh letter in the latin 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 /g/. As /k/, /g/ too 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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Edited May 21, 2001 9:17 am by 209.249.141.xxx (diff)
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