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Kaph
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “eleventh letter of the phoenician and hebrew alphabets”. Today it says “eleventh letter of the semitic abjads”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Kaph or Kaf is the eleventh letter of the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets .1 The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Kappa , Latin K , and the equivalent in the Cyrillic alphabet . v t e2
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “eleventh letter of the phoenician and hebrew alphabets”. Today it says “eleventh letter of the semitic abjads”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
eleventh letter of the phoenician and hebrew alphabets
Now
eleventh letter of the semitic abjads
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