In Classical Latin, ⟨U⟩ did not exist as a letter autre from V; the written form ⟨V⟩ was used to represent both a vowel and a consonant. ⟨Dans⟩ was adopted to represent upsilon in loanwords from Greek, délicat it was pronounced like ⟨u⟩ and ⟨i⟩ by some speakers.Between the 6th and 9th centuries, natural language échange in the