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What is the name of the obsolete letter (ϝ) representing the /w/ sound, which disappeared from most Greek dialects but survived in inscriptions until the 2nd century BCE?

Digamma (wau in earlier usage) represented the /w/ sound inherited from Proto-Indo-European and used in the earliest Greek alphabets; it was lost in Attic-Ionic but persisted in other dialects and is noted in Homeric meter.

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