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Claudian letters were developed by, and named after, the Roman Emperor Claudius (reigned 41 – 54 ). He introduced three new letters:
These letters were used to a small extent on public inscriptions dating from his reign but their use was abandoned after his death. Their forms were probably chosen to ease the transition, as they could be made from templates for existing letters. Claudius may have been inspired to introduce these changes by a comment his mother Antonia made to him in his youth, to the effect of that he would be as unlikely to become emperor as he would be able to change the alphabet. In time, the letter Y was added to the Latin alphabet, filling the role of the broken "H" which Claudius had promulgated. The reversed C is also used in Roman Numerals . These letters—along with lowercase counterparts—have been proposed for addition to Unicode . |
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