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Lamedh
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “twelfth letter in many abjad alphabets”. Today it says “twelfth letter of the semitic abjads”.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “twelfth letter in many abjad alphabets”. Today it says “twelfth letter of the semitic abjads”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Lamedh is the twelfth letter in many abjad alphabets, including Phoenician , Hebrew , and Aramaic .1 The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda (Λ), Latin L , and the equivalent in the Cyrillic alphabet . v t e2
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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “twelfth letter in many abjad alphabets”. Today it says “twelfth letter of the semitic abjads”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
twelfth letter in many abjad alphabets
Now
twelfth letter of the semitic abjads
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