aA bA cA dA eA fA gA hA iA jA kA lA mA nA oA pA qA rA sA tA uA vA wA xA yA zAAbout a thousand bce, in Byblos and other Phoenician and Canaanite centres, the sign was offered a linear type (3), the source of all afterwards forms. In Semitic languages this signal was known as aleph?a? would be the 3rd-most-normally utilized letter in English after ?e