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> > Unfortunately, the Greek alphabet lacks cade.
>
> Not all versions; the Spartans used a form of sade called san for the
> extra sibilant in their subdialect of Doric dialect. This phoneme had
> developed from theta [t_h], so it may well have been [T].
So they used both san and sigma, and did not use theta?
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Unicode
(http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf):
&1018; Greek capital letter san
&1019; Greek small letter san
Proposal to encode Archaic Letter San in the UTS
(www.tlg.uci.edu/files/san.pdf):
... It was used in the Doric dialect of Crete and Corinth but not in the
Ionic. Greek cities which used San did not simultaneously use Sigma. By the
second half of the fifth century BC. San was replaced by Sigma ... San looks
similar to the later letter mu (different from archaic mu which has a
shorter leg) ...
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BTW, another archaic Greek letter which could be usable
for some constructed script is:
Additional archaic letters for Bactrian:
&1015; GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SHO
&1016; GREEK SMALL LETTER SHO
whose shape is very similar to thorn
&222; Þ
&254; þ
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BTW, for those who do not already know them,
I recommend the animated gifs showing evolutions of alphabets,
found on several places on web, for example
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/alphapage.html
or
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/alpha.html
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P.A.