Aleph
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title:
Aleph
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Aleph is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Hebrew ʾālef א, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ, Arabic ʾalif ا, and North Arabian 𐪑. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez ʾälef አ. These letters are believed to have derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph depicting an ox's head to describe the initial sound of *ʾalp, the West Semitic word for ox. The Phoenician variant gave rise to the Greek alpha (Α), being re-interpreted to express not the glottal consonant
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First letter of many Semitic abjads
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph
date created:
2005-04-22T15:51:30Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T15:05:15Z
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