This article is about the letter of the Latin alphabet. For the sameletterform in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, seeTe (Cyrillic) andTau. For other uses, seeT (disambiguation).
Taw was the last letter of the WesternSemitic andHebrew alphabets. The sound value of SemiticTaw, theGreek alphabet Tαυ (Tau),Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing[t] in each of these, and it has also kept its original basic shape in most of these alphabets.
A commondigraph is⟨th⟩, which usually represents adental fricative, but occasionally represents/t/ (as inThomas andthyme). The digraph⟨ti⟩ often corresponds to the sound/ʃ/ (avoiceless palato-alveolar sibilant) word-medially when followed by a vowel, as innation,ratio,negotiation, andCroatia.
In a few words of modern French origin, the letter T is silent at the end of a word; these includecroquet anddebut.
ȶ : T with curl is used in Sino-Tibetanist linguistics[13]
Ʇ ʇ : Turned capital T and turned small t were used in transcriptions of theDakota language in publications of the American Board of Ethnology in the late 19th century.[14]
𐍄 :Gothic letter tius, which derives from Greek Tau
𐌕 :Old Italic T, which derives from Greek Tau, and is the ancestor of modern Latin T
ᛏ :Runic letterteiwaz, which probably derives from old Italic T
ፐ : One of the 26 consonantal letters of theGe'ez script. The Ge'ezabugida developed under the influence of Christian scripture by adding obligatory vocalic diacritics to the consonantal letters. Pesa ፐ is based on Taweተ.
Codepoints 005416 (8410) and x007416 (11610) were used for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
^Unicode treats representation of letters of theLatin alphabet written ininsular script as a typeface choice that needs no separate coding.U+A786ꞆLATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR T andU+A787ꞇLATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T are provided for use by phonetics specialists.[5]
References
^"T",Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989);Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "tee",op. cit.
