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noun - a Hebrew letter
ALEF - Aleph (or alef or alif) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician 'lep , Hebrew 'lef , Aramaic lap , Syriac lap , and Arabic Al...
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Aleph (or alef or alif) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician 'lep , Hebrew 'lef , Aramaic lap , Syriac lap , and Arabic Alif . It also appears as South Arabian , and Ge'ez Älef . * The Phoenician letter is derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph depicting an ox's head and gave rise to the Greek Alpha (), being re-interpreted to express not the glottal consonant but the accompanying vowel, and hence the Latin A and Cyrillic . * In phonetics, aleph originally represented the onset of a vowel at the glottis. In Semitic languages, this functions as a weak consonant allowing roots with only two true consonants to be conjugated in the manner of a standard three consonant Semitic root. In most Hebrew dialects as well as Syriac, the glottal onset represented by Aleph is an absence of a true consonant although a glottal stop ([]), which is a true consonant, typically occurs as an allophone. In Arabic, the Alif has the glottal stop pronunciation when occurring initially. In t |