T

T
ISO basic Laitin alphabet

Cursive script 't' and capital 'T' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

T (named tee /ˈtiː/^[1]) is the 20t letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the maist commonly uised consonant an the seicond maist common letter in the Inglish leid.^[2]

History

Phoenician Taw	Etruscan T	Greek Tau

Taw wis the last letter o the Wastren Semitic an Hebrew alphabets. The soond value o Semitic Taw, Greek alphabet Tαυ (Tau), Auld Italic an Latin T haes remained fairly constant, representin [t] in each o thir; an it haes an aa kept its oreeginal basic shape in aw o thir alphabets.

Uisage

In Inglis, ⟨t⟩ eften denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive (Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet an X-SAMPA: /t/), as in "tea", "tee", or "ties", eften wi aspiration at the beginnins o wirds or afore stressed vowels.

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

Τ τ : Greek letter Tau
Т т : Cyrillic letter Te

Computin codes

Character	T		t
Unicode name	LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER T		LATIN SMAA LETTER T
Encodins	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	84	U+0054	116	U+0074
UTF-8	84	54	116	74
Numeric chairacter reference	T	T	t	t
EBCDIC faimily	227	E3	163	A3
ASCII ¹	84	54	116	74

¹ An aa for encodins based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.

Ither representations

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Tango	–

		[[File:Sign language {{{fingerspelling}}}.svg\|90px]]
Seegnal banner	Banner semaphore	American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin)	Braille dots-2345

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. Archived frae the original on 8 Julie 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.

Freemit airtins

Media relatit tae T at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionar defineetion o T at Wiktionary
The dictionar defineetion o t at Wiktionary

The ISO basic Laitin alphabet v t e
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
Letter T with diacritics
Ťť	Ṫṫ	Ţţ	Ṭṭ	Țț	Ṱṱ	Ṯṯ	Ŧŧ	Ⱦⱦ	Ƭƭ	Ʈʈ	T̈ẗ	ᵵ	ƫ	ȶ
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 Leet o letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode

[1] "T", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "tee", op. cit.

[2] Lewand, Robert. "Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text". Cryptographical Mathematics. Central College. Archived frae the original on 8 Julie 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.

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