Pe (Semitic letter)
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This article is about the Semitic letter. For the Cyrillic letter, see Pe (Cyrillic). For the Persian letter, see Pe (Persian letter).
Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician pē 𐤐, Hebrew pē פ, Aramaic pē 𐡐, Syriac pē ܦ, and Arabic fāʾ ف (in abjadi order).
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Pe | |
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Phoenician | 𐤐 |
Hebrew | פ |
Aramaic | 𐡐 |
Syriac | ܦ |
Arabic | ف |
Phonemic representation | p, f (originally ɸ), w |
Position in alphabet | 17 |
Numerical value | 80 |
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
Greek | Π |
Latin | P |
Cyrillic | П |
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The original sound value is a voiceless bilabial plosive /p/ and it retains this value in most Semitic languages, except for Arabic, where the sound /p/ changed into the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, carrying with it the pronunciation of the letter. Not to be confused with the Turned g. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P, and Cyrillic П.