Editing Sampi (section)

==In other scripts==
[[Image:Plom I de La Serreta (Cara B).jpg|250px|thumb|Graeco-Iberian lead plaque from la Serreta ([[Alcoi]]), showing the Iberian form of sampi. The first word is {{lang|xib-Grek|ΙΥΝͲΤΙΡ̓}}, {{Transliteration|xib|iunstir}}|alt=A drawing of a rectangle with Greek letters. It has a large crack on the left.]]
[[File:KanishkaCoin3.JPG|thumb|right|Coin of king [[Kanishka]], with the inscription {{lang|xbc-Grek|ÞΑΟΝΑΝΟÞΑΟ ΚΑΝΗÞΚΙ ΚΟÞΑΝΟ}} ("King of Kings [cf. Persian "Shahanshah"], Kanishka the Kushan"), using Bactrian "[[Sho (letter)|ϸ]]" for ''š''.]]

In the [[Greco–Iberian alphabet]], used during the 4th century BC in eastern Spain to write the [[Iberian language]] (a language unrelated to [[Greek language|Greek]]), sampi was adopted along with the rest of the Ionian Greek alphabet, as an alphabetic character to write a second sibilant sound distinct from sigma. It had the shape <span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Iberian Sampi.svg|x16px|Ͳ]]</span>, with three vertical lines of equal length.<ref name="hoz"/>
Its pronunciation is uncertain, but it is transliterated as {{angbr|s}}.

The Greek script was also adapted in Hellenistic times to write the [[Iranian languages|Iranian]] language [[Bactrian language|Bactrian]], spoken in today's Afghanistan. Bactrian used an additional letter "[[Sho (letter)|sho]]"(Ϸ), shaped like the later (unrelated) Germanic letter [[thorn (letter)|"thorn"]] (Þ), to denote its ''sh'' sound (''š'', {{IPA|[ʃ]}}). This letter, too, has been hypothesized to be a continuation of Greek sampi, and/or san.<ref name="woodthorpe"/><ref name="sheldon"/>

During the first millennium AD, several neighboring languages whose alphabets were wholly or partly derived from the Greek adopted the structure of the Greek numeral system, and with it, some version or local replacement of sampi.

In [[Coptic alphabet|Coptic]], the sign "Ⳁ" (<span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Coptic Sampi.svg|x16px|Ⳁ]]</span>, which has been described as "the Greek <span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Greek Sampi palaeographic 01.svg|x16px|ͳ]]</span> with a Ρ above"<ref name="uhlhorn"/>), was used for 900.<ref name="layton"/><ref name="unicodecoptic1"/> Its numeric role was subsequently taken over by the native character Ϣ (''shei'', {{IPA|/ʃ/}}), which is related to the Semitic [[tsade]] (and thus, ultimately, cognate with Greek san as well).<ref>Foat, ''Tsade and Sampi'', p.363, refers to Ϣ as itself a version of sampi.</ref>

The [[Gothic alphabet]] adopted sampi in its Roman-era form of an upwards-pointing arrow (<span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Gothic Numeral 900.svg|x16px|𐍊]]</span>, 𐍊)<ref name="braune"/>

In the [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] writing system [[Glagolitic alphabet|Glagolitic]], the letter <span style="background-color: white;">[[File:Glagolitic capital letter Tsi.svg|x12px|Ⱌ]]</span> (''tse'', {{IPA|/ts/}}) was used for 900. It too may have been derived from a form of the Hebrew tsade.<ref name="schenker"/> In [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]], in contrast, the character {{script|Cyrs|[[Ѧ]]}} (''small yus'', {{IPA|/ẽ/}}) was used initially, being the one among the native Cyrillic letters that resembled sampi most closely in shape. However, the letter {{script|Cyrs|[[Ц]]}} (''tse''), the equivalent of the Glagolitic sign, took its place soon later. It has been proposed that sampi was retained in its alternative function of denoting multiplication by thousand, and became the Cyrillic "thousands sign" {{script|Cyrs|[[҂]]}}.<ref name="veder177"/>

In [[Armenian alphabet|Armenian]], the letter [[Ջ]] (''ǰ'') stands for 900, while [[Ք]] (''kʿ''), similar in shape to the Coptic sign, stands for 9000.