The uncial ⟨ ⟩ and half-uncial ⟨ ⟩ introduced by the Gregorian and Irish missions gradually developed into the Insular scripts' ⟨ ⟩. ![]() Beorc dates to at least the 2nd-century Elder Futhark, which is now thought to have derived from the Old Italic alphabets' ⟨ □ ⟩ either directly or via Latin ⟨ ⟩. Old English was originally written in runes, whose equivalent letter was beorc ⟨ ᛒ⟩, meaning " birch". (Modern Greek continues to lack a letter for the voiced bilabial plosive and transliterates such sounds from other languages using the digraph/ consonant cluster ⟨ μπ⟩, mp.) ![]() The Cyrillic letter ve ⟨ В⟩ represents the same sound, so a modified form known as be ⟨ Б⟩ was developed to represent the Slavic languages' /b/. īy Byzantine times, the Greek letter ⟨ Β⟩ came to be pronounced /v/, so that it is known in modern Greek as víta (still written βήτα). The Hebrew letter bet ⟨ ב⟩ is a separate development of the Phoenician letter. The Egyptian hieroglyph for the consonant /b/ had been an image of a foot and calf ⟨ ⟩, but bēt (Phoenician for "house") was a modified form of a Proto-Sinaitic glyph ⟨ ⟩ adapted from the separate hieroglyph Pr ⟨ ⟩ meaning "house". The Greek letter was an adaptation of the Phoenician letter bēt ⟨ □⟩. The Roman ⟨B⟩ derived from the Greek capital beta ⟨ Β⟩ via its Etruscan and Cumaean variants. In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants. ![]() It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. Its name in English is bee (pronounced / ˈ b iː/), plural bees. B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin-script alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
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