Editing V (section)

{{short description|22nd letter of the Latin alphabet}}
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{{About|the letter of the Latin alphabet|the lowercase letter of the Greek alphabet <!-- lowercase form is v -->|Nu (letter)|other uses}}
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{{Infobox grapheme
|name=V
|letter=V v
|script=[[Latin script]]
|type=[[Alphabet]]
|typedesc=ic and [[logographic]]
|language=[[Latin language]]
|phonemes=[{{IPAlink|v}}]<br>[{{IPAlink|w}}]<br>[{{IPAlink|β̞}}]<br>[{{IPAlink|f}}]<br>[{{IPAlink|b}}]<br>[{{IPAlink|u}}]<br>[{{IPAlink|ə}}]<br>[[Nasalization|[ə̃]]]<br>[{{IPAlink|y}}]<br>[{{IPAlink|ʋ}}]<br>[{{IPAlink|ɯ}}]<br>[{{IPAlink|ɤ}}]
|unicode=U+0056, U+0076
|alphanumber=22
|number=
|fam1=<hiero>G43</hiero><hiero>T3</hiero>
|fam2=[[Image:Proto-semiticW-01.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Waw]]
|fam3=[[File:PhoenicianW-01.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px]]
|fam4=[[Image:Phoenician waw.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Waw]]
|fam5=[[Image:Early Aramaic character - vav.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Waw]]
|fam6=[[Upsilon|Υ υ]]
|fam7=[[𐌖]]
|fam8=[[U]]
|usageperiod= {{circa}} 700 BCE to present
|children={{bull}}[[U]]<br>{{bull}}[[W]]<br>{{bull}}[[Logical disjunction|∨]]<br>{{bull}}[[℣]]<br>{{bull}}[[Ꮴ]]<br>{{bull}}[[Ꮙ]]<br>{{bull}}[[Ꮩ]]
|sisters=[[F]]<br>[[Ѵ]]<br>[[У]]<br>[[Ў]]<br>[[Ұ]]<br>[[Ү]]<br>[[Ꝩ]]<br>[[Waw (letter)|ו<br>و<br>ܘ]]<br>[[וּ]]<br>[[וֹ]]<br>[[ࠅ]]<br>[[𐎆]]<br>[[𐡅]]<br>[[ወ]]<br>[[વ]]<br>[[ૂ]] [[ુ]]<br>[[उ]]
|equivalents=[[Y]], [[U]], [[W]]
|associates=[[List of Latin-script digraphs#V|v(x)]]
|direction=Left-to-right
|Sample pronunciation alphabet=/t͡h/
/ð/
/v/
/vh/|image=Latin_letter_V.svg
|imageclass=skin-invert-image
}}
{{Latin letter info|v}}

'''V''', or '''v''', is the twenty-second [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] of the [[Latin alphabet]], used in the [[English alphabet|modern English alphabet]], the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is [[English alphabet#Letter names|''vee'']] (pronounced {{IPAc-en|'|v|iː|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-V.wav}}), plural ''vees''.<ref>"V", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "vee", ''op. cit''.</ref>