--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > >
> > > Peter T. Daniels wrote on Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:47 PM

> > There's no f in Greek. Or even Etruscan. It's a Latin innovation.
> Waw >
> > digamma. Upsilon is a later development -- is it in all the
> epichoric
> > alphabets?

> Digamma *is* the Greek 'f' - used for /w/ of course. I don't know
> what *you* mean by 'epichoric'. I did a quick google, and found a
> chart at http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~murray/classes/cg/alphabet.htm .
> According to that all the epichoric alphabets with digamma (or 'vau'
> if you prefer) had upsilon distinct from it.

Moreover, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal confirms that all epichoric
alphabets had upsilon -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L/message/2000 . Were you
looking for a second opinion?

Richard.