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ʾalif
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Aleph.
Arabic ʾalif
Written as ا or 𐪑, spelled as ألف or 𐪑𐪁𐪐 and transliterated as alif, it is the first letter in Arabic and North Arabian. Together with Hebrew aleph, Greek alpha and Latin A, it is descended from Phoenicianʾāleph, from a reconstructed Proto-Canaanite ʾalp "ox".