Editing Epsilon (section)

===[[Archaic Greek alphabets#epichoric|Epichoric]] alphabets===
Some dialects used yet other ways of distinguishing between various e-like sounds.

In [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]], the normal function of {{angbr|Ε}} to denote {{IPA|/e/}} and {{IPA|/ɛː/}} was taken by a glyph resembling a pointed B (<span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Beta archaic.svg|inline|x14px]]</span>), while {{angbr|Ε}} was used only for long close {{IPA|/eː/}}.<ref name="jeffery114">Jeffery, ''Local Scripts of Archaic Greece'', p. 114.</ref> The letter [[Beta]], in turn, took the deviant shape <span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Beta Corinth 1.svg|inline|x14px]]</span>.

In [[Sicyon]], a variant glyph resembling an {{angbr|X}} (<span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Epsilon X-shaped.svg|inline|x14px]]</span>) was used in the same function as Corinthian <span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Beta archaic.svg|inline|x14px]]</span>.<ref name="jeffery138">Jeffery, ''Local Scripts of Archaic Greece'', p. 138.</ref>

In [[Thespiae|Thespiai]] ([[Boeotia]]), a special letter form consisting of a vertical stem with a single rightward-pointing horizontal bar (<span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Eta tack.svg|inline|x12px]]</span>) was used for what was probably a [[close vowel|raised]] variant of {{IPA|/e/}} in pre-vocalic environments.<ref name="nicholas2">{{cite web |last=Nicholas |first=Nick |title=Proposal to add Greek epigraphical letters to the UCS |url=http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/epigraphical.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060217000025/http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/epigraphical.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 17, 2006 |access-date=2010-08-12 |year=2005 }}</ref><ref name="jeffery89">Jeffery, ''Local Scripts of Archaic Greece'', p. 89.</ref> This tack glyph was used elsewhere also as a form of "[[Heta]]", i.e. for the sound {{IPA|/h/}}.

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