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| Phonemic representation | n | |||||||||
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| Position in alphabet | 14 | |||||||||
| Numerical value | 50 | |||||||||
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Nun is the fourteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Nūn
, Hebrew Nun נ, Aramaic Nun
, Syriac Nūn ܢܢ, and Arabic Nūn ن (in abjadi order). It is the third letter in Thaana (ނ), pronounced as "noonu".
Its sound value is [n].
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek nu (Ν), Etruscan
, Latin N, and Cyrillic Н.