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V (named ''vee'' ,〔"V", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "vee", ''op. cit''.〕) is the 22nd letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. ==History== The letter V comes from the Semitic letter ''Waw'', as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y.〔"Letter V." Behind the Type. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct.2014. 〕 See F for details. In Greek, the letter ''upsilon'' 'Υ' was adapted from ''waw'' to represent, at first, the vowel as in "moon". This was later fronted to , the front rounded vowel spelled 'ü' in German. In Latin, a stemless variant shape of the upsilon was borrowed in early times as V—either directly from the Western Greek alphabet or from the Etruscan alphabet as an intermediary—to represent the same sound, as well as the consonantal . Thus, 'num' — originally spelled 'NVM' — was pronounced and 'via' was pronounced (:ˈwia). From the 1st century AD on, depending on Vulgar Latin dialect, consonantal developed into (kept in Spanish), then later to . During the Late Middle Ages, two forms of 'v' developed, which were both used for its ancestor and modern . 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 'valour' and 'excuse' appeared as in modern printing, 'have' and 'upon' were printed as 'haue' and 'vpon'. The first distinction between the letters 'u' and 'v' is recorded in a Gothic script from 1386, where 'v' preceded 'u'. By the mid-16th century, the 'v' form was used to represent the consonant and 'u' the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter 'u'. Capital 'U' was not accepted as a distinct letter until many years later. ==Letter== In the International Phonetic Alphabet, represents the voiced labiodental fricative. See Help:IPA. In English, V is unusual in that it has not traditionally been doubled to indicate a short vowel, the way for example P is doubled to indicate the difference between 'super' and 'supper'. However, that is changing with newly coined words, such as 'divvy up' and 'skivvies'. Like J, K, Q, X, and Z, V is not used very frequently in English. It is the 6th least common letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 1.03% in words. V is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the Australian version of the game of Scrabble. C also cannot be used in the American version The letter appears frequently in the Romance languages, where it is the first letter of the second person plural pronoun and (in Italian) the stem of the imperfect form of most verbs. This letter, like Q and X, is not used in the Polish alphabet. is spelled with the letter instead, following the convention of German. Informal romanizations of Mandarin Chinese use V as a substitute for the close front rounded vowel /y/, properly written ''ü'' or ''ue'' in pinyin and ''ueh'' in Wade-Giles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「V」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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