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Phoenician
Etymology
Presumably from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph based on a hieroglyph of an
ox head,
(
𓃾).
Letter
𐤀 (ʾ)
- The first letter of the Phoenician abjad, called aleph.
Descendants
- Ancient Greek: Α (A)
- Coptic: Ⲁ (A)
- Cyrillic: А
- Gothic: 𐌰 (a)
- Old Italic: 𐌀
- Aramaic: 𐡀 (ʾ)
- Classical Syriac: ܐ
- Hebrew: א
- Mandaic: ࡀ
- Pahlavi:
- Inscriptional Pahlavi: 𐭠 (ʾ)
- Inscriptional Parthian: 𐭀 (ʾ)
- Avestan: 𐬀, 𐬁
- (debated) Brahmi: 𑀅
Gallery
- Letter styles
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Phoenician 𐤀 (ʼ, “aleph”)
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Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʼ, “aleph”)