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    This document summarizes four letters from Semitic abjads - Dalet, Waw/Vav, Qoph, and Resh. It provides the origin of each letter, including which alphabets it is present in, and describes the glyph and sound value. For example, it states that Dalet originated from a hieroglyph depicting a door and has a sound value of [d]. The document also discusses how some letters, like Resh and Dalet, became visually similar in certain alphabets.

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    This document summarizes four letters from Semitic abjads - Dalet, Waw/Vav, Qoph, and Resh. It provides the origin of each letter, including which alphabets it is present in, and describes the glyph and sound value. For example, it states that Dalet originated from a hieroglyph depicting a door and has a sound value of [d]. The document also discusses how some letters, like Resh and Dalet, became visually similar in certain alphabets.

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    This document summarizes four letters from Semitic abjads - Dalet, Waw/Vav, Qoph, and Resh. It provides the origin of each letter, including which alphabets it is present in, and describes the glyph and sound value. For example, it states that Dalet originated from a hieroglyph depicting a door and has a sound value of [d]. The document also discusses how some letters, like Resh and Dalet, became visually similar in certain alphabets.

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    Alfabeto Semítico

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    This document summarizes four letters from Semitic abjads - Dalet, Waw/Vav, Qoph, and Resh. It provides the origin of each letter, including which alphabets it is present in, and describes the glyph and sound value. For example, it states that Dalet originated from a hieroglyph depicting a door and has a sound value of [d]. The document also discusses how some letters, like Resh and Dalet, became visually similar in certain alphabets.

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    ‫ד‬

    Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of


    the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Dālet 𐤃, Hebrew 'Dālet
    ‫ד‬, Aramaic Dālath , Syriac Dālaṯ ‫ܕ‬, and Arabic Dāl ‫( د‬in abjadi order;
         

    8th in modern order).


    Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive ([d]).

    The letter is based on a glyph of the


    Middle Bronze Age alphabets, probably called dalt "door" (door in
    Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph
    depicting a door:
    ‫و‬

    Waw/Vav (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads,


    including Phoenician wāw , Aramaic waw
          , Hebrew waw/vav ‫ו‬,
         

    Syriac waw ‫ ܘ‬and Arabic wāw ‫( و‬sixth in abjadi order; 27th in modern
    Arabic order).
    It represents the consonant [w] in original Hebrew, and [v] in modern
    ‫ו‬
    Hebrew, as well as the vowels [u] and [o]. In text with niqqud, a dot is
    added to the left or on top of the letter to indicate, respectively, the two
    vowel pronunciations.
    It is the origin of Greek Ϝ (digamma) and Υ (upsilon), Cyrillic У, Latin F
    and V, and the derived Latin- or Roman-alphabet letters U, W, and Y.
    ‫ק‬
    Qoph (Phoenician Qōp ) is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic
         

    abjads.
    Aramaic Qop is derived from the Phoenician letter, and
         

    derivations from Aramaic include Hebrew Qof ‫ק‬, Syriac Qōp̄ ‫ ܩ‬and
    Arabic Qāf ‫ق‬.
    Its original sound value was a West Semitic emphatic stop,
    presumably [kʼ] . In Hebrew gematria, it has the numerical value
    of 100
    Resh ‫ר‬

    Resh is the twentieth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Rūsh ,
         

    Hebrew Rēsh ‫ר‬, Aramaic Rēsh , Syriac Rēsh ‫ܪ‬, and Arabic Rāʾ ‫ر‬. Its sound value is
         

    one of a number of rhotic consonants: usually [r] or [ɾ], but also [ʁ] or [ʀ] in Hebrew and
    North Mesopotamian Arabic.
    In most Semitic alphabets, the letter resh (and its equivalents) is quite similar to the
    letter dalet (and its equivalents). In the Syriac alphabet, the letters became so similar
    that now they are only distinguished by a dot: resh has a dot above the letter, and the
    otherwise identical dalet has a dot below the letter. In the Arabic alphabet, rāʼ has a
    longer tail than dāl. In the Aramaic and Hebrew square alphabet, resh is a rounded
    single stroke while dalet is a right-angle of two strokes. The similarity led to the variant
    spellings of the name Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuchadrezzar.
    The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek rho (Ρ/ρ), Etruscan , Latin R, and
        

    Cyrillic Р.
    ‫ט‬
    Teth, also written as Ṭēth or Tet, is a letter of the Semitic abjads,
    including Phoenician Ṭēt , Hebrew Tēt ‫ט‬, Aramaic Ṭēth , Syriac Ṭēṯ
               

    ‫ܛ‬, and Arabic Ṭāʾ ‫ط‬. It is the 16th letter of the modern Arabic alphabet.
    The Persian ṭa is pronounced as a hard "t" sound and is the 19th letter
    in the modern Persian alphabet. The Phoenician letter also gave rise to
    the Greek theta (Θ), originally an aspirated voiceless dental stop but
    now used for the voiceless dental fricative. The Arabic letter (‫ )ط‬is
    sometimes transliterated as tah in English,[1] for example in
    Arabic script in Unicode.
    The sound value of Teth is /tˤ/, one of the Semitic emphatic consonants.

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