Acrophony (/əˈkrɒfəni/; Ancient Greek: ἄκρος, romanized: akros, lit. 'uppermost' + φωνή phone 'sound') is the naming of letters of an alphabetic writing...

languages; this is known as acrophony, and it is present in scripts including Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac. However, acrophony is not present in all languages...

had frequent and varied historical uses. According to the principle of acrophony, the letter A originated from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet as a symbol...

*bayt-), and appears to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by acrophony. The Phoenician letter gave rise to, among others, the Greek beta (Β,...

The mysterious letters (muqaṭṭaʿāt, Arabic: حُرُوف مُقَطَّعَات ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt, "disjoined letters" or "disconnected letters") are combinations of between...

Semitic languages. The word became the name of the letter, as an example of acrophony. It developed into Greek ⟨Ρ⟩ ῥῶ (rhô) and Latin ⟨R⟩. The descending diagonal...

a 2nd-century manuscript by Herodian; or as acrophonic numerals (from acrophony) because the basic symbols derive from the first letters of the (ancient)...

Nabataean). Ge'ez is from South Arabian. Phoenician used a system of acrophony to name letters: a word was chosen with each initial consonant sound,...

'ten', 'hundred', 'thousand' and 'ten thousand'. See Greek numerals and acrophony. Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals...

represent the sound of the rune itself according to the principle of acrophony. The Old English names of all 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, along with...