";s:4:"text";s:5881:"For the Cyrillic letter, see The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. This letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic bayt, Akkadian bītu, bētu, Hebrew: bayiṯ, Phoenician bt etc. It is the 16th letter of the modern Arabic alphabet. The Persian Ța is pronounced as a hard "t" sound and is the 19th letter in the modern Persian alphabet. Eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Kāp, Hebrew Kāf , Aramaic Kāp , Syriac Kāp̄ , and Arabic Kāf / (in Abjadi order). What we do. It was used for the writing of Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language, used by the civilization of Phoenicia.Ayin or Ayn is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjad, including Phoenician ʿayin Phoenician ayin.svg, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē Ayin.svg, Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). Every page goes through This article is about the Semitic letter. Proto-Canaanite letters (1 C, 1 P, 88 F) Psalter Pahlavi (34 F) R Rendered texts in semitic abjads (1 C, 1 F) S Sabaean letters (2 C, 66 F) Samaritan writing (2 C, 43 F) Syriac writing (2 C, 39 F) T Tāna script (3 C, 17 F) Pages in category "Semitic abjads" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. (In the charts below I only list its consonants, not its actual writing system.) The Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1050 BC, is the oldest verified alphabet. We have created a browser extension. The Arabic alphabet, however, uses a letter based on Phoenician Šīn to represent /s/ (see there); however, that glyph takes Samekh's place in the traditional Abjadi order of the Arabic alphabet.Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) literally means "teeth", "press", and "sharp"; It is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Shin Phoenician sin.svg, Hebrew Shin ש, Aramaic Shin Shin.svg, Syriac Shin ܫ, and Arabic Shin ش (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order). Its sound value in the original Phoenician and in all derived alphabets, save Arabic, is a voiced velar plosive [ɡ]; in Modern Standard Arabic, it represents either a /d͡ʒ/ or /ʒ/ for most Arabic speakers except in Lower Egypt, the southern parts of Yemen and some parts of Oman where it is pronounced as a voiced velar plosive [ɡ], see below and also Persian Gaf گ.He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Hē Phoenician he.svg, Hebrew Hē ה, Aramaic Hē He0.svg, Syriac Hē ܗ, and Arabic Hāʾ ﻫ. This atypical letter appears in Torah scrolls (most often Yemenite TorahsThere are two orthographic variants of this letter which indicate a different pronunciation: Semitic letter is a crossword puzzle clue. It is the third letter in Thaana (ނ), pronounced as "noonu".Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Pē Phoenician pe.svg, Hebrew Pē פ, Aramaic Pē Pe0.svg, Syriac Pē ܦ, and Arabic Fāʼ ف (in abjadi order) and also Persian Peʼ پ.The original sound value is a voiceless bilabial plosive: /p/; it retains this value in most Semitic languages except for Arabic, which having lost /p/ now uses it to render a voiceless labiodental fricative /f/.Qoph or Qop (Phoenician Qōp Phoenician qoph.svg) is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads. It represents the coalescence of three Proto-Semitic "emphatic consonants" in Canaanite. Its sound value is one of a number of rhotic consonants: usually [r] or [ɾ], but also [ʁ] or [ʀ] in Hebrew.Ṣade (also spelled Ṣādē, Tsade, Ṣaddi, Ṣad, Tzadi, Sadhe, Tzaddik) is the eighteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Çādē Phoenician sade.svg, Hebrew Ṣādi צ, Aramaic Ṣāḏē Sade 1.svg, Syriac Ṣāḏē ܨ, and Arabic Ṣād ص. Its sound value is a voiced glottal fricative ([ɦ]).Ḥet or H̱et (also spelled Khet, Kheth, Chet, Cheth, Het, or Heth) is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ḥēt Phoenician heth.png, Hebrew Ḥēt ח, Aramaic Ḥēth Heth.svg, Syriac Ḥēṯ ܚ, and Arabic Ḥā' ح.Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal /ħ/, or velar /x/ (the two Proto-Semitic phonemes having merged in Canaanite[citation needed]). The Abjad order of the Arabic alphabet has two slightly different variants. In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ḥāʾ ح represents /ħ/, while ḫāʾ خ represents /x/.Kaf (also spelled kaph) is the eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Kāp Phoenician kaph.svg, Hebrew Kāf כ, Aramaic Kāp Kaph.svg, Syriac Kāp̄ ܟܟ, and Arabic Kāf ک/ك (in Abjadi order).Lamed or Lamedh is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Lāmed Phoenician lamedh.svg, Hebrew 'Lāmed ל, Aramaic Lāmadh Lamed.svg, Syriac Lāmaḏ ܠ, and Arabic Lām ل. Its oldest sound value is probably /sˤ/, although there is a variety of pronunciation in different modern Semitic languages and their dialects. Most Semitic alphabets are actually abjads, and only include consonants, not vowels.