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| Phonemic representation | b, v | |||||||||
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| Position in alphabet | 2 | |||||||||
| Numerical value | 2 | |||||||||
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Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Bēt 
, Hebrew Bēt ב, Aramaic Bēth 
, Syriac Bēṯ ܒ, and Arabic Bāʾ ب Its sound value is a Voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or a Voiced labiodental fricative ⟨v⟩. This letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic , Akkadian , Hebrew: , Phoenician etc.; ultimately all from Proto-Semitic ), and appears to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by acrophony.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to, among others, the Greek Beta, Latin B, and Cyrillic Б, В.
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