This article is about the letter of the Latin alphabet. For the same letterform in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, 🛡 see Te (Cyrillic) and Tau . For other uses, see T (disambiguation)

T, or t, is the 20th letter in the 🛡 Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name 🛡 in English is tee (pronounced ), plural tees.[1] It is derived from the Semitic Taw 𐤕 of the Phoenician and 🛡 Paleo-Hebrew script (Aramaic and Hebrew Taw ת/𐡕/ , Syriac Taw ܬ, and Arabic ت Tāʼ) via the Greek letter τ 🛡 (tau). In English, it is most commonly used to represent the voiceless alveolar plosive, a sound it also denotes in 🛡 the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second-most commonly used letter in English-language texts.[2]

History 🛡 [ edit ]

Phoenician

Taw Etruscan