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. Its name in English is bee (pronounced 'biː), plural bees. It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants. The Roman derived from the Greek capital beta via its Etruscan and Cumaean variants. The Greek letter was an adaptation of the Phoenician letter bēt . 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 Hebrew letter bet is a separate development of the Phoenician letter. By Byzantine times, the Greek letter came to be pronounced /v/, so that it is known in modern Greek as víta (still written βήτα). The Cyrillic letter ve represents the same sound, so a modified form known as be was developed to represent the Slavic languages' /b/. (Modern Greek continues to lack a letter for the voiced bilabial plosive and transliterates such sounds from other languages using the digraph/consonant cluster , mp.) Old English was originally written in runes, whose equivalent letter was beorc , meaning "birch". 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 . The uncial and half-uncial introduced by the Gregorian and Irish missions gradually developed into the Insular scripts' . These Old English Latin alphabets supplanted the earlier runes, whose use was fully banned under King Canute in the early 11th century. The Norman Conquest popularised the Carolingian half-uncial forms which latter developed into blackletter . Around 1300, letter case was increasingly distinguished, with upper- and lower-case B taking separate meanings.

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Beth (lettre)
Beth, Bet (même lettre que le vet sauf avec un point à l'interieur de la lettre en hébreu) ou Vet est la seconde lettre de nombreux abjad sémitiques, dont le phénicien, l'araméen, le syriaque ܒ, l'hébreu ב, et l'arabe bāʾ ب. La lettre phénicienne est à l'origine du bêta (Β, β) de l'alphabet grec, du B de l'alphabet latin, ainsi que du Б et du В cyrilliques. Sa valeur phonétique est, selon le contexte, une consonne occlusive bilabiale voisée (//) ou une consonne fricative labio-dentale voisée (//).
K (lettre)
K est la onzième lettre et la consonne de l'alphabet latin. Cette lettre de l'alphabet latin vient de l'étrusque ; c'est un descendant du kappa de l'alphabet grec (Κ en majuscule et κ en minuscule). centré|vignette|600x600px|Formes majuscules et minuscules manuscrites de la lettre K dans le Dictionnaire des abréviations latines et française d’Alphonse Chassant.
Dot (diacritic)
When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the interpunct ( · ), or to the glyphs "combining dot above" ( ◌̇ ) and "combining dot below" ( ◌̣ ) which may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in use in Central European languages and Vietnamese. Anusvara Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark: In some forms of Arabic romanization, ġ stands for ghayin (غ). The Latin orthography for Chechen includes ċ, ç̇, ġ, q̇, and ẋ.
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