T
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Template:Latin alphabet navbox T is the twentieth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /tiː/) is spelled tee.[1] It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in the English language.[2]
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History
| Proto-Semitic T | Phoenician T | Etruscan T | Greek Tau |
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| File:Proto-semiticT-01.png | File:PhoenicianT-01.png | File:EtruscanT-01.svg | File:Tau uc lc.svg |
Taw was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets, and probably represented a cross. The sound value of Semitic Taw, Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing IPA: [/t/] in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in all of these alphabets.
Codes for computing
Template:Letter In Unicode, the capital T is codepoint U+0054 and the lower case t is U+0074.
The ASCII code for capital T is 84 and for lowercase t is 116; or in binary 01010100 and 01110100, correspondingly.
The EBCDIC code for capital T is 227 and for lowercase t is 163.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "T" and "t" for upper and lower case respectively.
See also
References
- ^ "T" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "tee," op. cit.
- ^ Lewand, Robert. "Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text". Cryptographical Mathematics. Central College. http://pages.central.edu/emp/LintonT/classes/spring01/cryptography/letterfreq.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-25.
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| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
Letter T with diacritics ŤťT̈ẗṪṫŢţṬṭȚțṰṱṮṯŦŧȾⱦᵵƫƬƭƮʈȶ
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