M (named em /ˈɛm/) is the thirteent letter o the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
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The letter M is derived frae the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu (Μ, μ). Semitic Mem probably oreeginally pictured watter. It is kent that Semitic fowk workin in Egyp c. 2000 BC borrowed a hieroglyph for "watter" that wis first uised for an alveolar nasal (/n/), acause o the Egyptian wird for watter, n-t. This same seembol acame uised for /m/ in Semitic, acause the wird for watter began wi that soond.
Egyptian hieroglyph "N" | Phoenician Mem | Etruscan M | Greek Mu | Roman M | ||
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The letter 'm' represents the bilabial consonant soond, [m], in Classical leids as well as the modren leids. The Oxford Inglis Dictionary (first edeetion) says that 'm' is whiles a vowel in wirds lik spasm an in the suffix -ism. In modren terminology, this wad be describit as a syllabic consonant — IPA [m̩].
Character | M | m | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER M | LATIN SMAA LETTER M | ||
Encodins | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 77 | U+004D | 109 | U+006D |
UTF-8 | 77 | 4D | 109 | 6D |
Numeric chairacter reference | M | M | m | m |
EBCDIC faimily | 212 | D4 | 148 | 94 |
ASCII 1 | 77 | 4D | 109 | 6D |
NATO phonetic | Morse code |
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Seegnal banner | Banner semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) | Braille dots-134 |
The ISO basic Laitin alphabet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
Letter M with diacritics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ḿḿ | Ṁṁ | Ṃṃ | ᵯ | ᶆ | Ɱɱ | |||||||||||||||||||||
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