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He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician hē 𐤄, Hebrew hē ה , Aramaic hē 𐡄, Syriac hē ܗ, and Arabic hāʾ ه . Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative ([h]). The proto-Canaanite letter gave rise to the Greek Epsilon Ε ε, [1] Etruscan 𐌄, Latin E, Ë and Ɛ, and Cyrillic Е, Ё, Є, Э ...
He (letter), the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads; He (pronoun), a pronoun in Modern English; He (kana), one of the Japanese kana (へ in hiragana and ヘ in katakana) Ge (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter called He in Ukrainian; Hebrew language (ISO 639-1 language code: he)
Archaic letter denoting the presence of /h/ prior to a long diphthong, with a normal or low pitch ᾟᾗ: Eta with subscript iota and circumflex and rough breathing: Archaic letter denoting the presence of /h/ prior to a long diphthong, with a high or falling pitch Ίί: Iota with acute: High pitch on short vowel or rising pitch on long vowel ...
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 have developed distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. [5]
The Zayit Stone, [18] Izbet Sartah ostracon, [19] and one inscription from Kuntillet Ajrud [20] each contain a number of reverse letter orders; such as vav-he, chet-zayin, pe-ayin, etc. A reversal to pe-ayin can be clearly seen in the Book of Lamentations, whose first four chapters are ordered as alphabetical acrostics.
Epsilon (US: / ˈ ɛ p s ɪ l ɒ n /, [1] UK: / ɛ p ˈ s aɪ l ə n /; [2] uppercase Ε, lowercase ε or ϵ; Greek: έψιλον) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid front unrounded vowel IPA: or IPA:.
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.
The mappiq is used to indicate that the corresponding letter is to be pronounced as a consonant, although in a position where the letter usually indicates a vowel. Typically, the mappiq is used in the middle of הּ ( he ), though it historically and biblically has been used with יּ ( yodh ), וּ ( vav ), and אּ ( aleph ).