This article is about the letter of the Latin alphabet. For the same letterform in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, π see Te (Cyrillic) and Tau . For other uses, see T (disambiguation)
T, or t, is the 20th letter in the π Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name π in English is tee (pronounced ), plural tees.[1] It is derived from the Semitic Taw π€ of the Phoenician and π Paleo-Hebrew script (Aramaic and Hebrew Taw Χͺ/π‘/ , Syriac Taw ά¬, and Arabic Ψͺ TΔΚΌ) via the Greek letter Ο π (tau). In English, it is most commonly used to represent the voiceless alveolar plosive, a sound it also denotes in π the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second-most commonly used letter in English-language texts.[2]
History π [ edit ]
Phoenician
Taw Etruscan