The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet.
B started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a housein Egyptian hieroglyphs.
C is the third letter in the Latin alphabet.
The Semitic letter D
probably developed from
thelogogram for a fish o
m
or a door.
Ε in the Semitic probably represented a
praying or calling human.
F originally represented either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph of mace.
G was introduced in the Old Latinperiod as a variant of c .
The form of the letter H probably stood for a fence or posts.
In Semitic, the letterwas probabl
ly originally a pictogram for an arm with hand.
J is the 10th letter in the basic modernLatin alphabet used today. It was the last of the 26 letters to be added.
K the symbol for an open hand.
The letter L is derived from the Egyptian crook or goad.
Semitic M probably originally pictured
water.
N as one of the most common snake hieroglyph was used in Egyptian letters.
This Semitic letter in its original form been inspiredby a similar Egyptian hiero
seems to have oglyph for “eye”
P is the sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
Q - originally qaw, “cord of wool”, and based on an Egyptian hieroglyph.
The original Semitic letter ably inspired an Egyptian
R was probn hieroglyph for “head”
S
is the ni basic mode
ineteenth letter in the ern Latin alphabet.
T was the last let Semitic and Hebre probably re
tter of the Western ew alphabets, and epresented a cross.
U is the twenty-first letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin al
lphabet.
The letter V comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y.
The earliest form of the letter W was a doubled V used in the 5th century by the earliest writers of Old English.
The letter is also a
a Roman numeral that represents the number 10
The letter Y is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet,representing a vowel in most languages that use it.
Z is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.