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The name for the letter is final kaf (kaf sofit). Four additional Hebrew letters take final forms: mem , nun , pei and tsadi . Kaf/khaf is the only Hebrew letter that can take a vowel in its word-final form, which is pronounced after the consonant, that vowel being the qamatz .
The now final forms ן ץ ף ך predate their non-final counterparts; They were the default forms used in any position within a word. Their descender eventually bent forwards when preceding another letter to facilitate writing. [citation needed] A final form of these letters is also called pshuta (פשוטה , meaning extended or plain).
An initial sound table (German: Anlauttabel) is a table, list or chart which shows a letter together with a picture of the things whose word start with that letter.They are commonly used in German classrooms for language teaching.
In word-final position, the French tetragraph cque is sometimes used for /k/ in some loan words, such as sacque (an old spelling of sack). The tetragraph sthm ( /s͡θ͜m/ ) is only used in the word i sthm us.
The final form is found in checked environments such as at the end of a phonological word or before an obstruent consonant such as t or k. Nasal consonants ( m , n , ng ) do not have noticeable positional allophones beyond initial denasalization, and ng cannot appear in this position.
The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the centuries that followed, various letters entered or fell out of use.
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Hawaiian does not distinguish [k] from [t]; k tends toward [k] at the beginning of utterances, [t] before [i], and is variable elsewhere, especially in the dialect of Niʻihau and Kauaʻi. Since Hawaiian has no [ŋ] , and w varies between [w] and [v] , it is not clearly meaningful to say that Hawaiian has phonemic velar consonants.