Pyur

Pyur, Pyowr, Piwr, or P'ywr (uppercase: Փ, lowercase: փ; Armenian: փյուր; Classical Armenian: փիւր) is the 35th letter of the Armenian alphabet. It represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial stop (/pʰ/). Its capital form is homoglyphic to the Cyrillic letter Ef, the Greek letter Phi, and the IPA symbol for the voiceless bilabial fricative. The lowercase form is the letter Tyun with two additional vertical lines jutting on the top and the bottom. Created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century, it has a value of 8000 as an Armenian numeral.^[1]

Writing systemArmenian script

TypeAlphabetic

Language of originArmenian language

Sound valuespʰ

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Pyur
Փ փ
Usage
Writing system	Armenian script
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Armenian language
Sound values	pʰ
In Unicode	U+0553, U+0583
Alphabetical position	35
History
Development	𓃻? 𐤒 Ϙ ϙ Φ φ Փ փ
Time period	405 to present
Other
Associated numbers	8000
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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