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Daleth




Dalet (, also spelled '''Daleth''' or '''Daled''') is the fourth Letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew , Syriac and Arabic (in Abjadi Order ; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is a Voiced Alveolar Plosive ().

The letter is based on a glyph of the Middle Bronze Age Alphabets , probably called ''dalt'' "door" (''door'' in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a Hieroglyph depicting a door, O31

The Proto-Canaanite letter may have been called ''digg'' "fish" (Hebrew ''dag'').

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Delta (Δ), Latin D and the equivalent in the Cyrillic Д .


ARABIC DāL


The letter is named ''dāl'', and is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:


HEBREW DALET