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T, or t, is the twentieth
letter Letter, letters, or literature may refer to: Characters typeface * Letter (alphabet), a character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet. * Letterform, the graphic form of a letter of the alphabe ...
in the
Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it used to write English and th ...
, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''tee'' (pronounced ), plural ''tees''. It is derived from the Semitic Taw 饜 of the Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew script (
Aramaic The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, 軔塥堋軡軔, Ar膩m膩y膩; oar, 饜饜饜饜饜; arc, 饜饜饜饜饜; tmr, 讗植专指诪执讬转), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated in ...
and
Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
Taw 转/饜/,
Syriac Syriac may refer to: *Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic *Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region * Syriac alphabet ** Syriac (Unicode block) ** Syriac Supplement * Neo-Aramaic languages a ...
Taw 墁, and
Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
T膩始 Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician T膩w , Hebrew Tav , Aramaic Taw , Syriac Taw 墁, and Arabic 鬲 T膩始 (22nd in abjadi order, 3rd in modern order). In Arabic, it is also gives r ...
) via the Greek letter (
tau Tau (uppercase 韦, lowercase 蟿, or \boldsymbol\tau; el, 蟿伪蠀 ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosive . In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 300. The name in English ...
). In English, it is most commonly used to represent the
voiceless alveolar plosive The voiceless alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postal ...
, a sound it also denotes in the
International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation ...
. It is the most commonly used
consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are and pronounced with the lips; and pronounced with the front of the tongue; and pronounced wi ...
and the second most commonly used letter in English-language texts.


History

'' Taw'' was the last letter of the Western Semitic and
Hebrew alphabet The Hebrew alphabet ( he, 讗指诇侄祝志讘值旨讬转 注执讘职专执讬, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewi ...
s. The sound value of Semitic ''Taw'',
Greek alphabet The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as w ...
T伪蠀 (''Tau''), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in most of these alphabets.


Use in writing systems


English

In English, usually denotes the
voiceless alveolar plosive The voiceless alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postal ...
(
International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation ...
and
X-SAMPA The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at University College London. It is designed to unify the individual language SAMPA alphabets, a ...
: ), as in ''tart'', ''tee'', or ''ties'', often with aspiration at the beginnings of words or before stressed vowels. The digraph often corresponds to the sound (a
voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant A voiceless postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The International Phonetic Association uses the term ''voiceless postalveolar fricative'' only for the sound , but it also describes the voiceless ...
) word-medially when followed by a vowel, as in ''nation'', ''ratio'', ''negotiation,'' and ''Croatia''. The letter corresponds to the affricate in some words as a result of yod-coalescence (for example, in words ending in "-ture", such as ''future''). A common digraph is , which usually represents a
dental fricative The dental fricative or interdental fricative is a fricative consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue against the teeth. There are several types (those used in English being written as ''th''): *Voiced dental fricative - as in the English ...
, but occasionally represents (as in ''Thomas'' and ''thyme''.) In a few words of modern French origin, the letter T is silent at the end of a word; these include ''croquet'' and ''debut''.


Other languages

In the
orthographies An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. Most transnational languages in the modern period have a writing system, and mos ...
of other languages, is often used for , the
voiceless dental plosive The voiceless alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postal ...
, or similar sounds.


Other systems

In the
International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation ...
, denotes the
voiceless alveolar plosive The voiceless alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postal ...
.


Related characters


Descendants and related characters in the Latin alphabet

*T with
diacritic A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacriti ...
s: 扭 钮 峁 峁
岷 is a modified letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from the letter T with a double dot on it. It is used in the ISO 233 transliteration of Arabic to represent ''t膩始 marb奴峁璦'' (锖, 锖), and also in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet to rep ...
泞 牛 峁 峁 飘 蕡 葰 葲 峁 峁 峁 峁 纽 脓 染 獗 片 骗
Latin small letter T with middle tilde ( 岬 ) is a letter of the Latin script. At present there is no uppercase version encoded in Unicode Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology st ...
*隇 隇 : Insular T, also used by
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to designate the voiceless dental fricative ref name=Insular> *岖 : Combining small insular t was used in the
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* : Turned small t is used in the
International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation ...
(IPA) *饜灟 : Modifier letter small t with retroflex hook is a superscript IPA letter *饾級 : Latin small letter t with hook and retroflex hook is a symbol for a
voiceless retroflex implosive A voiceless retroflex implosive is a rare consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. There is no official symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound, but or may be used, or the old convention (). Features ...
*饾紞 : Latin small turned t with curl is a
click letter Various letters have been used to write the click consonants of southern Africa. The precursors of the current IPA letters, , were created by Karl Richard Lepsius and used by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, who added . Also influential were Daniel ...
*
Uralic Phonetic Alphabet The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA) or Finno-Ugric transcription system is a phonetic transcription or notational system used predominantly for the transcription and reconstruction of Uralic languages. It was first published in 1901 by Eemil Nes ...
-specific symbols related to T: ** ** ** ** *鈧 : Subscript small t was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902 * : T with curl is used in Sino-Tibetanist linguistics *隇 蕠 : Turned capital T and turned small t were used in transcriptions of the
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in publications of the American Board of Ethnology in the late 19th century *饾吉 : Small t with mid-height left hook was used by the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 20th century for
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of the
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language.


Ancestors and siblings in other alphabets

*饜 : Semitic letter Taw, from which the following symbols originally derive **韦 蟿 :
Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
letter
Tau Tau (uppercase 韦, lowercase 蟿, or \boldsymbol\tau; el, 蟿伪蠀 ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosive . In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 300. The name in English ...
*** : Coptic letter Taw, which derives from Greek Tau ***孝 褌 : Cyrillic letter Te, also derived from Tau *** : Gothic letter tius, which derives from Greek Tau ***饜寱 : Old Italic T, which derives from Greek Tau, and is the ancestor of modern Latin T **** :
Runic Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised ...
letter teiwaz, which probably derives from old Italic T *釐 : One of the 26 consonantal letters of Ge'ez script. The Ge'ez
abugida An abugida (, from Ge'ez: ), sometimes known as alphasyllabary, neosyllabary or pseudo-alphabet, is a segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel n ...
developed under the influence of Christian scripture by adding obligatory vocalic diacritics to the consonantal letters. Pesa 釐 is based on Tawe .


Derived signs, symbols and abbreviations

*鈩 :
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*鈧 :
Mongolian t枚gr枚g The t枚gr枚g or tugrik (Mongolian Cyrillic: , Mongolian script: , transcription: ; sign: 鈧; code: MNT) is the official currency of Mongolia. It was historically subdivided into 100 ( / ). Currently, the lowest denomination in regular use is th ...
*鈧 : Kazakhstani tenge *唰 :
Bangladeshi taka The Bangladeshi taka ( bn, 唳熰唳曕, sign: , code: BDT, short form: Tk) is the currency of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. In Unicode, it is encoded at . Issuance of bank notes 10 and larger is controlled by Bangladesh Bank, while ...


Computing codes

: 1


Other representations


Explanatory notes


References


External links

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