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Extracted from the Wikipedia article Aleph.
Aleph (also spelled alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenicianʾālep𐤀, Hebrewʾālefא, Aramaicʾālap𐡀, Syriacʾālap̄ܐ, Arabicʾalifا, and North Arabian𐪑. It also appears as South Arabian𐩱 and Ge'ezʾälefአ.