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‘Ain Ghazal
''Ayin'' (also ''ayn'' or ''ain''; transliterated ) is the sixteenth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician ''ʿayin'' 𐤏, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew ''ʿayin'' , Aramaic alphabet, Aramaic ''ʿē'' 𐡏, Syriac alphabet, Syriac ''ʿē'' ܥ, and Arabic alphabet, Arabic ''ʿayn'' (where it is sixteenth in Abjad numerals, abjadi order only). It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪒, Ancient South Arabian script, South Arabian , and Geʽez script, Ge'ez . The letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative () or a similarly articulated consonant. In some Semitic languages and dialects, the phonetic value of the letter has changed, or the phoneme has been lost altogether. In the revived Modern Hebrew it is reduced to a glottal stop or is omitted entirely. The Phoenician letter is the origin of the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letters Omicron, O, O and O (Cyrillic), O. It is also the origin of the Armenian letters Vo (A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letter (alphabet)
In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two. An alphabet is a writing system that uses letters. Definition and usage A letter is a type of grapheme, the smallest functional unit within a writing system. Letters are graphemes that broadly correspond to phonemes, the smallest functional units of sound in speech. Similarly to how phonemes are combined to form spoken words, letters may be combined to form written words. A single phoneme may also be represented by multiple letters in sequence, collectively called a ''multigraph (orthography), multigraph''. Multigraphs include ''digraphs'' of two letters (e.g. English ''ch'', ''sh'', ''th''), and ''trigraphs'' of three letters (e.g. English ''tch''). The same letterform may be used in different alphabets while representing different phonemic categories. The Latin H, Greek eta , an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
