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Waw | |
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Phoenician | 𐤅 |
Hebrew | ו |
Aramaic | 𐡅 |
Syriac | ܘ |
Arabic | و |
Phonemic representation | w, v, o, u |
Position in alphabet | 6 |
Numerical value | 6 |
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
Greek | Ϝ, Υ |
Latin | F, U, V, W, Y |
Cyrillic | Ѕ, У, Ѵ |
Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw 𐤅, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו, Syriac waw ܘ and Arabic wāw و (sixth in abjadi order; 27th in modern Arabic order).
It represents the consonant [w] in classical Hebrew, and [v] in modern Hebrew, as well as the vowels [u] and [o]. In text with niqqud, a dot is added to the left or on top of the letter to indicate, respectively, the two vowel pronunciations.
It is the origin of Greek Ϝ (digamma) and Υ (upsilon), Cyrillic У, Latin F and V and later Y, and the derived Latin- or Roman-alphabet letters U and W.
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