Kaph

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Phoenician	Hebrew	Aramaic	Syriac	Arabic
	כ,ך		ܟܟ	ك‍,ك
Alphabetic derivatives		Greek	Latin	Cyrillic
		Κ	K	К
Phonemic representation:				k, x
Position in alphabet:				11
Numerical (Gematria/Abjad) value:				20

Kaph (also spelled Kap or Kaf) is the eleventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Kaf כ, Arabic alphabet Kāf ك, Persian alphabet ک. Its value is /k/.

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Kappa (Κ), Latin K, and Cyrillic К.

Origin of Kaph

Semitic alphabets
Phoenician (c.1050 – 200 BCE)
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