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HistoryArchaic local variants Diacritics and other symbolsDiacriticsάὰᾶἀἁᾱᾰϊᾳσ̌LigaturesϗϛNumerals (Attic)ϛ (6)ϟ (90)ϡ (900) Related topicsUse as scientific symbolsOrthographyRomanizationCyrillizationTau (; uppercase Τ, lowercase τ or τ; Greek: ταυ) is the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosiveIPA:. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 300. The name in English is pronounced or , and in Greek it is .

Te (Cyrillic)Te (Cyrillic)Τ τТ тTransliterationsT tVariationsᲄ, ᲅOtherAssociated numbers300 (Cyrillic numerals)This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see . For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.Te (Т т; italics: Т т or Т т; italics: Т т) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.Greek alphabetGreek alphabetHistoryArchaic local variants Diacritics and other symbolsDiacriticsάὰᾶἀἁᾱᾰϊᾳσ̌LigaturesϗϛNumerals (Attic)ϛ (6)ϟ (90)ϡ (900) Related topicsUse as scientific symbolsOrthographyRomanizationCyrillizationThe Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and is the earliest known alphabetic script to systematically write vowels as well as consonants.TawTawLetter of many Semitic alphabets ← Shin TawPhoenician𐤕‎HebrewתSamaritanࠕ‎Aramaic𐡕‎‎SyriacܬNabataean𐢞‎‎ArabicتSouth Arabian𐩩GeʽezተNorth Arabian𐪉‎‎‎‎Ugaritic𐎚Phonemic representationt (also θ, s)Position in alphabet22Numerical value400Alphabetic derivatives of the PhoenicianGreekΤLatinTCyrillicТ Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic tāʾ ت, Aramaic taw 𐡕‎, Hebrew tav ת, Phoenician tāw 𐤕, and Syriac taw ܬ.Greek languageGreek languageGreek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, romanized: elliniká; Ancient Greek: ἑλληνική, romanized: hellēnikḗ) is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to the territories that have had populations of Greeks since antiquity: Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Turkey, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, and the .Phoenician alphabetPhoenician alphabetWriting system used c. 1050 to 146 BCThe Phoenician alphabet is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. It was one of the first alphabets, attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the .Greek orthographyGreek orthographyThe orthography of the modern Greek language was standardised in 1976 and the diacritics were simplified in 1982. There are relatively few differences between the orthography of Ancient Greek and Modern Greek. Some time prior to that, one early form of Greek, Mycenaean, was written in Linear B, although there was a lapse of several centuries (the Greek Dark Ages) between the time Mycenaean stopped being written and the time when the Greek alphabet came into use.Greek numeralsGreek numeralsSystem of writing numbers using Greek letters Part of a series onNumeral systems Place-value notation Hindu–Arabic numerals Western Arabic Eastern Arabic Bengali Devanagari Gujarati Gurmukhi Odia Sinhala Tamil Malayalam Telugu Kannada Dzongkha Tibetan Balinese Burmese Javanese Khmer Lao Mongolian Sundanese Thai Other systems History Ancient Babylonian Post-classical Cistercian Mayan Muisca Pentadic Quipu Rumi Contemporary Cherokee Kaktovik (Iñupiaq) By radix/base Common radices/bases 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 11 12 16 20 60 Non-standard radices/bases Bijective (1) Signed-digit (balanced ternary) Mixed (factorial) Negative Complex (2i) Non-integer (φ) Asymmetric Sign-value notation Non-alphabetic Contemporary East Asian Chinese Hokkien Suzhou Japanese Korean Vietnamese Historic East Asian Counting rods Tangut Other non-alphabetic Aegean Attic Aztec Brahmi Chuvash Egyptian Etruscan Kharosthi Prehistoric counting Proto-cuneiform Roman Tally marks Alphabetic Abjad Armenian Alphasyllabic Akṣarapallī Āryabhaṭa Kaṭapayādi Coptic Cyrillic Geʽez Georgian Glagolitic Greek Hebrew List of numeral systemsvte Roman milestone with Roman numerals CCↆX (100+100+50+10); at bottom is its Greek equivalent, ΣΞ (200+60); the stone marks 260 Roman miles from Philippi.TT𐤕Ττ𐌕T tTime periodc. 700 BCE to presentDescendantsTh (digraph)™₮₸ŦŤŢꞱSisters𐍄ТҬЋҴתتܬةࠕ𐎚𐎙ተፐՏ տतटતટOtherAssociated graphst(x), th, tzschWriting directionLeft-to-rightThis article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see .Modern GreekModern GreekModern Greek (endonym: Νέα Ελληνικά, Néa Elliniká or Κοινή Νεοελληνική Γλώσσα, Kiní Neoellinikí Glóssa), generally referred to by speakers simply as Greek (Ελληνικά, Elliniká), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including the official standardized form of the language sometimes referred to as Standard Modern Greek.Voiceless dental and alveolar plosivesVoiceless dental and alveolar plosivesVoiceless alveolar and dental plosives (or stops) are a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spokenlanguages. The alveolar is familiar to English-speakers as the ⟨t⟩ sound in stick. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolarplosives is ⟨t⟩. The voiceless dental plosive can be distinguished with the underbridge diacritic ⟨t̪⟩, and the postalveolar with a retraction line, ⟨t̠⟩.Diaeresis (diacritic)Diaeresis ( dy-ERR-ə-siss, -⁠EER-) is a diacritical mark consisting of two dots (◌̈) that indicates that two adjacent vowel letters are separate syllables – a vowel hiatus (which is also named diaeresis in linguistics terminology) – rather than a digraph or diphthong. It consists of a two dots diacritic placed over a letter, generally a vowel.Greek diacriticsGreek diacriticsHistoryArchaic local variants Diacritics and other symbolsDiacriticsάὰᾶἀἁᾱᾰϊᾳσ̌LigaturesϗϛNumerals (Attic)ϛ (6)ϟ (90)ϡ (900) Related topicsUse as scientific symbolsOrthographyRomanizationCyrillizationGreek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period.ΤΤRelated word or term.ττRelated word or term.

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