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Final form
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<p>In certain languages, the final form or terminal form is a special character used to represent a letter only when it occurs at the end of a word. Some languages that use final form characters are: <a href="/facts/Arabic_language/A1e66hVV">Arabic</a>, <a href="/facts/Hebrew_language/hqKCSy9d">Hebrew</a>, <a href="/facts/Manchu_language/5FNskcAr">Manchu</a> and one letter in <a href="/facts/Greek_language/pzDd6eIz">Greek</a> (<a href="/facts/Sigma/DWcCDzou">ς</a>). </p><p>The lowercase <a href="/facts/Latin_alphabet/pqWVHpBz">Latin</a> letter "s" had separate medial (<a href="/facts/Long_s/WAcX8v6a">ſ</a>) and final (s) in the orthographies of many European languages from the medieval period to the early 19th century; it survived in the German <a href="/facts/Fraktur/1MlTtGvl">Fraktur</a> script until the 1940s. </p>