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Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic tāʾ ت , Aramaic taw 𐡕, Hebrew tav ת , Phoenician tāw 𐤕, and Syriac taw ܬ. In Arabic, it also gives rise to the derived letter ث ṯāʾ. Its original sound value is /t/. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek tau (Τ), Latin ...
Tau (/ ˈ t aʊ, ˈ t ɔː, ˈ t ɒ /; [1] uppercase Τ, lowercase τ or ; Greek: ταυ) is the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosive IPA:. In the system of Greek numerals , it has a value of 300.
The Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets are two slight regional variants of the same script. The first Paleo-Hebrew inscription identified in modern times was the Royal Steward inscription (KAI 191), found in 1870, and then referred to as "two large ancient Hebrew inscriptions in Phoenician letters".
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to systematically write vowels as well as consonants. [5]
The Phoenician alphabet continued to be used by the Samaritans and developed into the Samaritan alphabet, that is an immediate continuation of the Phoenician script without intermediate non-Israelite evolutionary stages. The Samaritans have continued to use the script for writing both Hebrew and Aramaic texts until the present day.
The tau cross is a T-shaped cross, sometimes with all three ends of the cross expanded. [1] ... after the cross-shaped Phoenician and early Hebrew letter] ...
A huge basin on a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, long thought to have been an ancient harbor, was actually a sacred freshwater pool surrounded by Phoenici
tau from Greek Ταυ tau, perhaps from Hebrew ת"ו taw (WNW) 'mark', 'cross' (MW) + from (MW) Phoenician 𐤅𐤀𐤕 (AHD) izzard probably from French et zede 'and Z', in part from Greek ζήτα zeta (MW), from Phoenician, similar to Aramaic ܙܝܢܐ zayin, Hebrew זי"ן zayin (AHD) 'weapon' zed