Aleph (letter)
See also: Aleph
Aleph (א, IPA //) is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It means bull étymologiquement. Its origin goes back to the Alphabet phenician and the letter is undoubtedly related with the Glottal stop of the ougaritic alphabet. It is of its name, phenician pronounced in Greek which drift the word alphabet of the Romance Langues (אלף - בית, aleph- Beth ).
Aleph is related with the Alpha ( Α, α ) of the Greek alphabet, with has ( has, has ) Etruscan Alphabet then with the has Latin alphabet and with the А of the Cyrillic alphabet. Alpha and aleph , like all the letters of the alphabet phenician, was a Consonne, but in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, it is the Voyelle which followed the Glottal stop which was retained like the written letter.
Its numerical value in the Hebraic Numération is 1.
Other uses
- El Aleph , a news of Jorge Shine Borges;
- Aleph , new denomination since 2000 of the sect Aum Shinrikyo .
In mathematics
See also: Aleph (number)
A aleph is an element of a succession of numbers used to represent the cardinal infinite units.
- ℵ0 (Aleph-zéro) is the cardinal of the whole of the natural entireties;
- ℵ1 (Aleph-un) is the cardinal of the whole of the ordinal countable.
See too
- Hebrew alphabet (writings square, Rachi and cursive)
- Hebrew alphabet
- has
- Alif
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