Syriac Pe

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Syriac Pe is a letter of the Syriac alphabet, derived from earlier Semitic scripts, that represents the "p" and sometimes "f" sound in Syriac writing.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Aramaic Pe 1
Syriac Pe canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Syriac letter
abjad consonant
belongsToAlphabetOf Syriac language
linked to: Syriac
category consonant letter
correspondsToArabicLetter Arabic Baʼ (historical relation via Phoenician Pe)
Arabic Faʼ
correspondsToHebrewLetter Hebrew Pe
derivedFrom Aramaic Pe
linked to: Syriac Pe

Phoenician Pe
directionOfWriting right-to-left
hasDiacriticVariant Rukkakha form indicating /f/
hasFinalForm ܦ
hasInitialForm ܦ
hasIsolatedForm ܦ
hasMedialForm ܦ
hasNameInSyriac ܦܐ
hasPhoneticAllophony /p/ ~ /f/ depending on diacritics and position
hasTraditionalNameMeaning mouth
hasTransliteration f
p
historicalOrigin Northwest Semitic scripts
numericValue 80
positionInAlphabet 17
representsPhoneme /f/
/p/
script Syriac alphabet
scriptFamily Semitic abjads
unicodeBlock Syriac
usedByReligiousCommunities Assyrian Church of the East
Chaldean Catholics
Maronites
Syriac Christians
linked to: Syriacs
usedIn Syriac biblical manuscripts
Syriac liturgical texts
usedInLanguage Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
Classical Syriac
linked to: Syriac

Western Neo-Aramaic
writingSystemType abjad

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Phoenician Pe ancestorOf Syriac Pe
Syriac Pe derivedFrom Aramaic Pe
linked to: Syriac Pe