#9
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(in ‘semitic’, the ‘letter’ was probably originally a ‘pictogram’ for an ‘arm’ with ‘hand’, derived from a similar hieroglyph that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ʕ/) in Egyptian, but was reassigned to /j/ (as in english “yes”) by Semites, because their word for “arm” began with that sound)
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