#14
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(one of the most common snake hieroglyph was used in egyptian writing to stand for a sound like english “J”, because the egyptian word for “snake” was djet)
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It is speculated that Semitic people working in Egypt adapted hieroglyphics to create the first alphabet, and that they used the same snake symbol to represent N, because their word for “snake” may have begun with that sound.
However, the name for the letter in the Phoenician, and Arabic alphabets is nun, which means “fish” in some of these languages.
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(the sound value of the letter was /n/—as in ‘greek’, ‘etruscan’, ‘latin’, and all modern languages)
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