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For other uses of "B", see B (disambiguation).
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History
The letter B probably started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a house in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet. By 1050 BC, the Phoenician alphabet's letter had a linear form that served as the beth.| Egyptian hieroglyph cottage |
Proto-Canaanite house |
Phoenician �� beth |
Greek Β beta |
Etruscan �� B |
Latin B |
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Typography
The modern lowercase letter b derives from later Roman times, when scribes began omitting the upper loop of the capital.) | ) | |
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The letter B is often confused with the visually similar German ß which stands for ss.
Usage
In English and most other languages that use the Latin alphabet, the letter b denotes the voiced bilabial plosive (IPA /b/), as in bib. In English it is sometimes "silent", as in debt or comb (however the 'b' in 'comb' was actually pronounced at one time). In Estonian, Icelandic, and in Chinese transcription, B is not voiced, but is still contrasted to P, which is geminated /pp/ in Estonian and aspirated /pʰ/ in Chinese and Icelandic. In Fijian B is prenasalized IPA: [mb], whereas in Zulu and Xhosa it is implosive IPA: [ɓ], in contrast to the digraph Bh which represents IPA: [b].Finnish uses the letter b only for loanwords.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA, letter /b/ denotes the voiced bilabial plosive. Variants of the letter b denote related bilabial consonants, like the voiced bilabial implosive and the bilabial trill. In X-SAMPA, capital B denotes the voiced bilabial fricative.
Codes for computing
Alternative representations of B
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The ASCII code for capital B is 66 and for lowercase b is 98; or in binary 01000010 and 01100010, correspondingly.
The EBCDIC code for capital B is 194 and for lowercase b is 130.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "B" and "b" for upper and lower case respectively.
See also
- В : Ve (Cyrillic)
- Ɓ
- B postcode area (United Kingdom)
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Letter B with diacritics ḂḃḄḅḆḇɃƀᵬᶀƁɓƂƃ?
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References
1. ^ "B" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "bee," op. cit.
B is the second letter of the alphabet.
B may also refer to:
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B may also refer to:
- B programming language
- B (musical note)
- Haplogroup B (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
- Haplogroup B (Y-DNA), a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup
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Latin alphabet
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Sister systems Cyrillic
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A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a[1] (IPA: /eɪ/), plural aes, as, or a's.
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- This article is about the letter. For other uses, see C (disambiguation).
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Basic Latin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd
Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj
Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp
Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv
Ww Xx Yy Zz
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E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled e (IPA: /iː/), plural es or ees (also written E's, Es, e's, etc.).
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F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ef (IPA: /ɛf/), or eff when used as a verb.
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G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee or occasionally ge (IPA /dʒiː/).
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H is the eighth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled aitch,[1] pronounced IPA /eɪtʃ/ in most dialects, though in Irish and Indian English it is generally haitch
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I is the ninth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is i [aɪ].
Egyptian hieroglyph ˁ Proto-Semitic Y Phoenician Y Etruscan I Greek Iota
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History
Egyptian hieroglyph ˁ Proto-Semitic Y Phoenician Y Etruscan I Greek Iota
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J is the tenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet; it was the last of the 26 letters to be added. Its name in English is jay IPA: /dʒeɪ/.
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K is the eleventh letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled kay (IPA /keɪ/).[1]
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History and usage
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L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is el (IPA: /ɛl/).[1]
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History
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M is the thirteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled em (IPA: /ɛm/).[1]
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History
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N is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en (IPA: /ɛn/).[1]
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O is the fifteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled o (IPA /oʊ/), plural oes.
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P is the sixteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled pee or occasionally pe (IPA: /piː/)[1].
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Q is the seventeenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cue (IPA: /kju/).[1]
Egyptian hieroglyph wj Phoenician Q Etruscan Q Greek Qoppa
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Egyptian hieroglyph wj Phoenician Q Etruscan Q Greek Qoppa
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R is the eighteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ar (IPA: /ɑr/: [ɑː]
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S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ess or occasionally es (IPA: /ɛs/), generally es- when part of a compound word, plural esses.
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T is the twentieth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled tee or occasionally te (IPA: /tiː/).
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U is the twenty-first letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled u (IPA: /juː/).
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V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee or occasionally ve (IPA: /viː/).
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W is the twenty-third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled double-u.[1] Along with Y, it is one of two letters to serve as a representation for both vowel and consonant sounds.
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X is the twenty-fourth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ex (IPA: /ɛks/),[1] plural exes.
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Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled wye or occasionally wy (IPA: /waɪ/), plural wyes.
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Z is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the modern Latin alphabet.
In many dialects of English, the letter's name is zed (IPA: /zɛd/), reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below).
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In many dialects of English, the letter's name is zed (IPA: /zɛd/), reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below).
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Latin alphabet
Child systems Numerous: see Alphabets derived from the Latin
Sister systems Cyrillic
Coptic
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Runic/Futhark
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Writing system: Latin (English variant)
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
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Writing system: Latin (English variant)
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng
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This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language.
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