What was the Latin name of the Roman letters H and X?

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The Phonecians gave their letters names which were taken over, with slight modification by the Greeks and Hebrews, but the Romans replaced them with simplified names based on their sounds, A, BE, CE, DE etc. which have been copied by every language using the Roman alphabet. J, Y and Z were different as they were added later. But H and X have names differing from one language to another. What did the Romans call them?

dollhaus · Accepted Answer

H = ha
X = ix

? · Answer

The source, as ultimate all of us understand, is a language called Proto Indo Eoropean (PIE), spoken 10,000 years in the past or so, someplace around recent-day Ukrainia. From that cut up off various languages -one became Proto Italic, which in turn gave Italic, which in its turn gave Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, and Latin. on the grounds that Latin became the language of Rome, it grew to alter into dominant with the Roman Empire and the others died out. Latin in turn gave upward thrust to Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Romansch (Swiss), Provencal, Occitian, Galego, Catalan, Dalmatian, Illyrian, and particularly some others.

What was the Latin name of the Roman letters H and X?

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