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Aleph is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician 'Ālep 12px, Hebrew 'Ālef , Aramaic Ālap 10 px, Syriac ʾĀlap̄ , and Arabic . The Phoenician letter is derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph depicting an ox's head〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - Middle East - Oldest alphabet found in Egypt )〕 and gave rise to the Greek Alpha (Α), being re-interpreted to express not the glottal consonant but the accompanying vowel, and hence the Latin A and Cyrillic А. In phonetics, aleph originally represented the glottal stop (), often transliterated as , based on the Greek ''spiritus lenis'' , for example, in the transliteration of the letter name itself, '. ==Origin== The name ''aleph'' is derived from the West Semitic word for "ox", and the shape of the letter derives from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph that may have been based on a Egyptian hieroglyph In Modern Standard Arabic, the word literally means 'tamed' or 'familiar', derived from the root , from which the verb ألِف means 'to be acquainted with; to be on intimate terms with'. In modern Hebrew, the same root (alef-lamed-peh) gives ''me’ulaf'', the passive participle of the verb ''le’alef'', meaning 'trained' (when referring to pets) or 'tamed' (when referring to wild animals); the IDF rank of Aluf, taken from an Edomite title of nobility, is also cognate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aleph」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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