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t

See also: T, and Appendix:Variations of "t"

t U+0074, t
LATIN SMALL LETTER T
← s
[U+0073] 		Basic Latin u →
[U+0075]
Character variations

ᵗ U+1D57, ᵗ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL T
← ᵖ
[U+1D56] 		Phonetic Extensions ᵘ →
[U+1D58]
ｔ U+FF54, ｔ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER T
← ｓ
[U+FF53] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｕ →
[U+FF55]
Some sans-serif typefaces have a straight and symmetrical t. This is especially common in children's books.
Languages (55)
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Translingual

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t (upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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Pronunciation

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  • Pronunciation of IPA [tɑː, ɑttɑː] with the sound [t]:(file)

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t

  1. (IPA) a voiceless alveolar/dental plosive.
  2. (superscript ⟨ᵗ⟩, IPA) [t]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [t]-release, [t]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [t].
  3. (mathematics, physics) time
  4. tonne
  5. (manufacturing) thickness
    0.7 mmt

Usage notes

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  • As a symbol meaning "time", t is italicised in print; for example, "the position at time t is x".

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  • (IPA): d (“voiced alveolar plosive”)

Other representations of T:

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  • Letter styles
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    Uppercase and lowercase versions of T, in normal and italic type
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    Uppercase and lowercase T in Fraktur

English

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Etymology 1

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t (lower case, upper case T, plural ts or t's)

  1. The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.
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Number

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The ordinal number twentieth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

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Abbreviations.

t

  1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of at
  2. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of to and homophone too.

Noun

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t (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of time.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of T, ton.
  3. (UK) Alternative letter-case form of T, tonne.
  4. (historical) Abbreviation of tomin.
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Afar

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t

  1. The third letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Azerbaijani

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t lower case (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Basque

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Basque alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Central Mazahua

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t (upper case T)

  1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

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Chipewyan

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  1. IPA(key): /tʰ/

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t (upper case T)

  1. A letter of the Chipewyan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Danish

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Danish alphabet

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t

  1. ton

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. the twentieth letter of the Dutch alphabet
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  • Previous letter: s
  • Next letter: u

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Pronoun

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t

  1. (text messaging) Nonstandard form of 't.

Egyptian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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t
X2		 X4
Z2

 m

  1. bread

Inflection

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Declension of t (masculine)
singular t
dual twj
plural tw

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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of t  
X2
t
t
X2
t
X2		 X4
Z2
X2X4
Z2
t X2
X4
t t t t t t
[chiefly Old Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom]
abbreviation abbreviation in names
of types of ritual loaves

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References

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  • “tʾ (lemma ID 168810)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 209.4–211.4
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 292

Esperanto

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called to and written in the Latin script.

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Faroese

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t (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and t for information on the development of the glyph itself.

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

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Noun

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t

  1. Abbreviation of tavu.

French

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
      Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
      His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.

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t

  1. (text messaging, Internet slang) Informal spelling of t’es
    t ou? ― wya?
    t pas chez toi? ― ur not home?
    t vrmt nul! ― u rly suck!

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Fula

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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German

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the German alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Gothic

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Romanization

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t

  1. Romanization of 𐍄

Heiltsuk

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t (upper case T)

  1. A letter of the Heiltsuk alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈt]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈteː]

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called té and written in the Latin script.

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative t t-k
accusative t-t t-ket
dative t-nek t-knek
instrumental t-vel t-kkel
causal-final t-ért t-kért
translative t-vé t-kké
terminative t-ig t-kig
essive-formal t-ként t-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive t-ben t-kben
superessive t-n t-ken
adessive t-nél t-knél
illative t-be t-kbe
sublative t-re t-kre
allative t-hez t-khez
elative t-ből t-kből
delative t-ről t-kről
ablative t-től t-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		t-é t-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		t-éi t-kéi
Possessive forms of t
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. t-m t-im
2nd person sing. t-d t-id
3rd person sing. t-je t-i
1st person plural t-nk t-ink
2nd person plural t-tek t-itek
3rd person plural t-jük t-ik

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  • t in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

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t (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Ido

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  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /t/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /te/

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t (upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Ilocano

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Etymology 1

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Ilocano alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

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Clipping of ti (“the”), homophonous to ti.

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t

  1. (text messaging, Internet slang) Nonstandard spelling of ti.

Irish

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

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t f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case T)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

Kankanaey

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Tagalog t. Letter pronunciation is influenced by English t.

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  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ti/ [ti̞]
    • Rhymes: -i
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /t/ [t̚]

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

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  • Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016) Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy‎[3] (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11

Kashubian

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Etymology

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The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and t for development of the glyph itself.

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Kiowa

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t (upper case T)

  1. A letter of the Kiowa alphabet.

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Latin

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t

  1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

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Latvian

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Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

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T

t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called tē and written in the Latin script.

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Livonian

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t (upper case T)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Malay

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Maltese

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  • IPA(key): /t/
  • IPA(key): /d/ (by assimilation to a following voiced obstruent)

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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North Frisian

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  • IPA(key): [tʰ~t] (generally)
  • IPA(key): [d̥] (Sylt, when intervocalic in an unstressed syllable, merges with ⟨d⟩)

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. A letter of the North Frisian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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  • Palatal ⟨tj⟩ is usually pronounced [t͡ʃ] at the start of a word or stressed syllable.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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  • (letter name): IPA(key): /teː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/, (in rt) /ʈ/
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t

  1. The 20th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • (letter name): IPA(key): /teː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/, (in rt) /ʈ/
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t m (upper case T, definite singular t-en, indefinite plural t-ar, definite plural t-ane)

  1. The 20th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.
  2. Something in the shape of a T

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Noun

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t

  1. Abbreviation of time.
  2. Abbreviation of tonn.
  3. (music) Abbreviation of tempo.
  4. (music) Abbreviation of tenor.
  5. (historical) Initialism of tilfredsstillande (academic grade).
  6. Abbreviation of tara.
  7. (music) Abbreviation of tonika (“tonic”).

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t

  1. (text messaging, informal) Abbreviation of til (“to”).

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Nupe

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Polish

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Etymology

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The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and t for development of the glyph itself.

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t (upper case T, lower case)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Polish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romani

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. (International Standard) The twenty-sixth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax) The twenty-seventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romanian

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called te or tî and written in the Latin script.

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Saterland Frisian

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  • IPA(key): /ət/
  • Hyphenation: t

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t

  1. Unstressed form of dät

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  • Pyt Kramer (1996) Kute Seelter Sproakleere‎[4], Mildam, page 10

Scottish Gaelic

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by s and followed by u. Its traditional name is teine (“gorse”).

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Serbo-Croatian

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  • T (uppercase)

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t (Cyrillic spelling т)

  1. The 26th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by š and followed by u.

Silesian

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Etymology

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The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and t for development of the glyph itself.

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Skolt Sami

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t (upper case T)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Spanish

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. the 21st letter of the Spanish alphabet

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t m or f (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of tiempo, time
  2. Alternative letter-case form of T, tonelada: ton, Spanish ton, metric ton
  3. (historical) Abbreviation of tomín: tomin, former Spanish unit of currency
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Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Preposition

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t

  1. (text messaging, Internet slang) Abbreviation of te.
    t kiero wapo
    luv u sxy

Swedish

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Swedish alphabet

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Declension of t
nominative genitive
singular indefinite t ts
definite t:et t:ets
plural indefinite t:n t:ns
definite t:na t:nas

Tagalog

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Borrowed from Spanish t. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English t.
  • Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜆ (ta).
  • Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish t.

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  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈti/ [ˈt̪i] (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
      • Rhymes: -i
    • IPA(key): /ˈta/ [ˈt̪a] (letter name, Abakada alphabet)
      • Rhymes: -a
    • IPA(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪ɛ] (letter name, Abecedario)
      • Rhymes: -e
    • IPA(key): /t/ [t̪] (phoneme)

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t (lower case, upper case T, Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Filipino alphabet), called ti and written in the Latin script.
  2. (historical) The twenty-third letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abecedario), called te and written in the Latin script.

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t (lower case, upper case T, Baybayin spelling ᜆ)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abakada alphabet), called ta and written in the Latin script.

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  • “t”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tlingit

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t (upper case T)

  1. A letter of the Tlingit alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Turkish

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Turkmen

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t (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Welsh

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by s and followed by th.

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Mutated forms of tŷ
radical soft nasal aspirate
tŷ dŷ nhŷ thŷ

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “t”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yele

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t (upper case T)

  1. A letter of the Yele alphabet.

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  • The digraph ⟨tp⟩ transcribes the single consonant /t̪͡p/

There is a digraph for palatalized ⟨tpy⟩. (Expected *ty is written ⟨ch⟩)

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Yoruba

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called tí and written in the Latin script.

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Zulu

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t (lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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