T

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Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic and Logographic
Language of origin	Latin language
Phonetic usage	[t]; [ʈ]; [tʰ]; [tʼ]; [d] ; [ð]; [t̪]; [t͡ʃ]; [ɾ]; [ʔ]; /tiː/
Unicode codepoint	U+0054, U+0074
Alphabetical position	20
History
Development	𐤕‬ Ττ 𐌕 T t; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Time period	~-700 to present
Descendants	• Th (digraph); • ™; • ₮; • ₸; • Ŧ; • Ť; • Ţ; • Ʇ
Sisters	𐍄; Т; Ҭ; Ћ; Ҵ; ת; ت; ܬ; ة; ࠕ; 𐎚; 𐎙; ተ; ፐ; Տ տ; Ց ց; त; ट; ત; ટ; ⶊ
Other
Other letters commonly used with	t(x), th, tzsch
Writing direction	Left-to-right
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T, or t, is the twentieth letter of 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 /ˈtiː/), 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]

^ "T", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "tee", op. cit.
^ Lewand, Robert. "Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text". Cryptographical Mathematics. Central College. Archived from the original on 2008-07-08. Retrieved 2008-06-25.