Pe (letter)
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This is about the letter found in some Semitic alphabets. For the Cyrillic letter, see Pe (Cyrillic).
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Pe is the seventeenth letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Pi (Π), Latin P, and Cyrillic Pe.
The basic sound represented by the letter is a labial plosive: IPA [p], however in Hebrew it developed in certain cases (notably following a vowel within the same word) to a fricative sound: IPA [f]. When written with a dagesh (a dot in the middle of the letter) pe is pronounced [p]; when written without the dagesh, it is pronounced [f] and is transliterated f or ph.
There are two forms of the Hebrew letter: ף is used when it is the final letter of a word; פ is used in all other cases.
