In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “bout the letter found in some semitic alphabets”. Today it says “bout the semitic letter”.
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This is about the letter found in some Semitic alphabets. Pe is the seventeenth letter in many abjad alphabets, including Phoenician , Hebrew , and Aramaic .1The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P , and Cyrillic Pe . v t e2
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Pe is the seventeenth letter in many Semitic abjads , including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew Pei פ , Persian alphabet Pe [پ] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: pr ( help ) and Arabic alphabet fāʼ ف (in abjadi order ).The original sound value is a voiceless bilabial plosive : /p/ ; it retains this value in most Semitic languages except for Arabic, which having lost /p/ now uses it to render a voiceless labiodental fricative /f/ . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P , and Cyrillic Pe .
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Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Phoenician Pē , Hebrew Pē פ , Aramaic Pē , Syriac Pē ܦ , and Arabic Fāʼ ف (in abjadi order ). The original sound value is a voiceless bilabial plosive : /p/ ; it retains this value in most Semitic languages except for Arabic, which having lost /p/ now uses it to render a voiceless labiodental fricative /f/ . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P , and Cyrillic П .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Phoenician Pē , Hebrew Pē פ , Aramaic Pē , Syriac Pē ܦ , and Arabic Fāʼ ف (in abjadi order ). The original sound value is a voiceless bilabial plosive : /p/ ; it retains this value in most Semitic languages, except for Arabic, where the sound /p/ changed into the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/ , carrying with it the pronunciation of the letter. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P , and Cyrillic П .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Seventeenth letter of the Semitic scripts This article is about the Semitic letter. Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Phoenician pē 𐤐, Hebrew pē פ, Aramaic pē 𐡐, Syriac pē ܦ, and Arabic fāʾ ف (in abjadi order ). The original sound value is a voiceless bilabial plosive : /p/ ; it retains this value in most Semitic languages, except for Arabic, where the sound /p/ changed into the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/ , carrying with it the pronunciation of the letter. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P , and Cyrillic П .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Seventeenth letter of the Semitic scripts This article is about the Semitic letter. Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Arabic fāʾ ف , Aramaic pē 𐡐, Hebrew pē פ , Phoenician pē 𐤐, and Syriac pē ܦ.It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪐, South Arabian 𐩰 , and Ge'ez ፈ .Without proper rendering support , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Ugaritic alphabet . The original sound value is a voiceless bilabial plosive /p/ and it retains this value in most Semitic languages, except for Arabic, where the sound /p/ changed into the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/ , carrying with it the pronunciation of the letter. However, the sound /p/ in Arabic is used in loanwords with the letter pe as an alternative.Under the Persian influence, many Arabic dialects in the Persian Gulf , as well as in Egypt and in some of the Maghreb under the Ottoman influence uses the letter pe to represent the sound /p/ which is missing in Modern Standard Arabic .The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P , Glagolitic Ⱂ , and Cyrillic П .
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