Small capitals (or just small caps) can be used in bicameral scripts. They use the design of capital letters, but are smaller (roughly the size of the lowercase letters) and usually replace the lowercase letters.
Dutch: kleinkapitalen
French: petites capitales
German: Kapitälchen
Italian: maiuscoletto
Norwegian: Kapiteler
Polish: kapitaliki
Russian: капите́ль
Spanish: Versalita
Turkish: Kısa-Büyük Harfler
Related Term(s): Petite caps

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