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For other uses, see Eta . In Modern Greek the letter is pronounced Close Front Unrounded Vowel . In the Classical version of the Ancient Greek language, it was pronounced as a long . The symbol was initially used to denote the Rough Breathing , Voiceless Glottal Fricative . In the Ionic Dialect , where this sound had disappeared by the sixth century BC, the letter was used to represent the long []. When the Ionic alphabet was adopted in Athens in 403 BC , [] (previously written as Ε) was also written as Η there too, hence the modern usage. SYMBOL Eta is sometimes used in place of Eng (ŋ) when eng is not available, because of their similar appearance. The upper-case letter Η is used as a symbol for:
The lower-case letter η is used as a symbol for:
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