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In Swedish, V and W were treated as the same letter and mixed together when sorting (in the phonebook, in database software, etc) until 2006. https://en.wikipe

• totalZero 8y ago
  In Persian, the same letter makes the oh/oo sound and the v sound. Weird.
  • danans 8y ago
    That's because in the Arabic script, from which the modern Persian script is derived, doesn't differentiate between vowels sounds like oo/oh and their related semivowels. In Arabic, oo and v are both bilabial sounds (produced using both lips). In Persian, v is pronounced more labio-dentally (bottom lip, top teeth), which is perhaps what causes the confusion. But the lack of written distinction for these sounds is common in many scripts including Indian, Greek, and older Latin.
• ptaipale 8y ago
  In Finland, it is still correct to treat V and W as equivalent when sorting (e.g. phonebooks). This applies both to Swedish and Finnish language and context. However, now it is more common to treat them as separate letters, which is also accepted. (Finland is bilingual, and the characters sets, keyboards and sorting rules are same both for Finnish and Swedish.)