"A" "a" (first letter and vowel in many scripts)
The letter or figure of the A "can be traced to an ancient pictogram of an ox head shaped in an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet . In 1600 BC the Phoenician alphabet had a linear form that served as the basis for some forms below. Your name must correspond closely to the Hebrew or Arabic alphabet . When the Greeks adopted the alphabet , had no use for the global end of the letter had denoted in Phoenician and other Semitic languages, so the sign used to represent the vowel a, and kept its name with a small change or more known to them as (alpha). In the early Greek inscriptions after the Greek Dark Ages, dating from the eighth century BC, the letter A is based on its side, but in the Greek alphabet of later times generally resembles the modern capital letter, although many local varieties can be distinguished by the shortening of a leg, or the angle at which the reference line is the cross. Th...