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{{short description|First letter of the Greek alphabet}} {{about|the Greek letter|the Latin letter|Latin alpha}} {{other uses}} {{pp-semi-indef}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Greek Alphabet|letter=alpha}} '''Alpha''' {{IPAc-en|'|æ|l|f|ə|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Alpha.wav}} {{respell|ALF|ə}}<ref>{{OED|alpha}}</ref> (uppercase {{Script|Grek|'''Α'''}}, lowercase {{Script|Grek|'''α'''}}){{Efn|{{langx|grc|ἄλφα|álpha}}, or {{langx|el|άλφα|álfa}}}} is the first [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] of the [[Greek alphabet]]. In the system of [[Greek numerals]], it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the [[Phoenician alphabet|Phoenician]] letter ''[[Aleph#Origin|aleph]]'' {{angbr|𐤀}}, whose name comes from the [[West Semitic]] word for '[[ox]]'.<ref>{{cite dictionary | entry=aleph |last=Brookes | first=I. | dictionary=Chamber Concise Dictionary | publisher=Allied | year=2004 | isbn=978-81-86062-36-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iwWuY9tAVq8C | page=30 | access-date=15 November 2021 | archive-date=11 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220611085621/https://books.google.com/books?id=iwWuY9tAVq8C | url-status=live }}</ref> Letters that arose from alpha include the [[Latin script|Latin]] letter {{angbr|[[A]]}} and the [[Cyrillic]] letter {{angbr|[[A (Cyrillic)|А]]}}.
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