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  Cursive script 'm' and capital 'M' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style
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M (named em /ˈɛm/)[1] is the thirteent letter o the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]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].
Relatit letters an ither similar characters
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Μ μ : Greek letter Mu
- М м : Cyrillic letter Em
Computin codes
[eedit | eedit soorce]| 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 |
- 1 An aa for encodings based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.
Ither representations
[eedit | eedit soorce]| NATO phonetic | Morse code |
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| Seegnal banner | Banner semaphore | American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) | Braille dots-134 |
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "M" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "em," op. cit.
Freemit airtins
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Media relatit tae M at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionar defineetion o M at Wiktionary- The dictionar defineetion o m at Wiktionary
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Letter M with diacritics
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| Ḿḿ | Ṁṁ | Ṃṃ | ᵯ | ᶆ | Ɱɱ | |||||||||||||||||||||
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