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The letter V is the twenty-second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is pronounced vee .
The letter V ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y. See F for details. In Greek, the letter "upsilon" (Υ) was adapted from waw to represent, at first, the vowel as in "moon" and then later , a rounded vowel similar to the German ü). In Latin, it was borrowed in early times as V (without the stem) to represent the same sound, as well as the consonantal (historically, Latin came from Proto-Indo-European . Thus, num was pronounced "noom" and via was pronounced "wee-a." From the fifth century on, depending on Vulgar Latin dialect, consonantal developed into or . During the late Middle Ages, two forms of "v" developed, which were both used for modern u and v. The pointed form "v" was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form "u" was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. So whereas valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, "have" and "upon" were printed haue and vpon. Eventually, in the 1700s, to differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the "v" form was used to represent the consonant, and "u" the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter "u". Capital "U" appeared at this time; previously, V was used in all cases. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, represents the voiced labiodental fricative. See IPA chart for English for pronunciation key. Similarly to J, K, W and Y, V is not used too frequently in the Basic English Language. Codes for computing The ASCII code for capital V is 86 and for lowercase v is 118; or in binary 01010110 and 01110110, respectively. The EBCDIC code for capital V is 229 and for lowercase v is 165. The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "& Meanings for V See also sn:V yo:V | ||||||||
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