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Resh

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “twentieth letter of the phoenician and hebrew alphabets”. Today it says “twentieth letter of the semitic abjads”.
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The opening as it read in 2005

Resh is the twentieth letter of the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets .1 The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Rho , Latin R , and the equivalent in the Cyrillic alphabet . v t e2

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “twentieth letter of the phoenician and hebrew alphabets”. Today it says “twentieth letter of the semitic abjads”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

twentieth letter of the phoenician and hebrew alphabets

Now

twentieth letter of the semitic abjads

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