Kai (conjunction)
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Kai is the most frequent word in any Greek text and thus used by statisticians to assess authorship of ancient manuscripts based on the number of times it is used. LigatureBecause of its frequent occurrence, kai is sometimes abbreviated in Greek manuscripts and in (κ) with an extra lower stroke. It may occur with the varia above it: ϗ̀.Ϗ ϗ
For representation in electronic texts the kai symbol has its own Unicode positions: GREEK KAI SYMBOL (U+03D7) and GREEK CAPITAL KAI SYMBOL (U+03CF). Authorship of ancient textsThe number of common words which express a general relation ("and", "in", "but", "I", "to be") is random with the same distribution at least among the same genre. By contrast, the occurrence of the definite article "the" cannot be modeled by simple probabilistic laws because the number of nouns with definite article depends on the subject matter.
Table 1 has data about the epistles of 2 Corinthians, and Galatians) form a consistent group, and all the other epistles lie more than 2 standard deviations from the mean of this group (using statistics).
EsperantoEsperanto kaj comes from Greek.[2] It may be abbreviated as k. or k See also
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This article incorporates material from Econ 7800 class notes by Hans G. Ehrbar, which is licensed under GFDL. External linksLook up καί in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |