Pe (letter)
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| Phonemic representation | p, f (was ɸ), w | |||||||||
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| Position in alphabet | 17 | |||||||||
| Numerical value | 80 | |||||||||
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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) and also Persian Peʼ پ.
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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