Editing T (section)

{{Short description|20th letter of the Latin alphabet}}
{{About|the letter of the Latin alphabet|the same [[letterform]] in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets|Te (Cyrillic)|and|Tau|other uses}}
{{Distinguish|text=[[ㅜ]], [[Tea]], [[Tee]], or various [[box-drawing character]]s}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox grapheme
|name = T
|letter = T t
|script=[[Latin script]]
|type=[[Alphabet]]
|typedesc=ic and [[logographic]]
|language=[[Latin language]]
|phonemes={{flex list|[{{IPA link|t}}]|[{{IPA link|ʈ}}]|[{{IPA link|tʰ}}]|[{{IPA link|tʼ}}]|[{{IPA link|d}}]|[{{IPA link|ð}}]|[{{IPA link|t̪}}]|[{{IPA link|t͡ʃ}}]|[{{IPA link|ɾ}}]|[{{IPA link|ʔ}}]|{{IPAc-en|t|iː}}}}
|unicode=U+0054, U+0074
|alphanumber=20
|number=
|fam1=<hiero>Z9</hiero>
|fam2=[[File:Proto-semiticT-01.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic Taw]]
|fam3=[[File:Prototaw.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px]]
|fam4=[[File:Phoenician taw.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Taw]]
|fam5=[[𐤕]]
|fam6=[[Tau|Ττ]]
|fam7=[[𐌕]]
|usageperiod={{circa}} 700 BCE to present
|children={{flex list|[[Th (digraph)]]|[[™]]|[[₮]]|[[₸]]|[[Ŧ]]|[[Ť]]|[[Ţ]]|[[Ʇ]]}}
|sisters={{flex list|[[𐍄]]|[[Т]]|[[Ҭ]]|[[Ћ]]|[[Ҵ]]|[[Taw|ת]]|[[Taw|ت]]|[[Taw|ܬ]]|[[ة]]|[[ࠕ]]|[[𐎚]]|[[𐎙]]|[[ተ]]|[[ፐ]]|[[Տ|Տ տ]]|[[wikt:Ց|Ց]] [[wikt:ց|ց]]|[[त]]|[[ट]]|[[ત]]|[[ટ]]|[[ⶊ]]}}
|equivalents=
|associates=[[List of Latin-script digraphs#T|t(x)]], [[Th (digraph)|th]], [[tzsch]]
|direction=Left-to-right
|image=File:Latin_letter_T.svg
|imageclass=skin-invert-image
}}
{{special characters|Unicode}}
{{Latin letter info|t}}

'''T''', or '''t''', is the twentieth [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] of the [[Latin alphabet]], used in the [[English alphabet|modern English alphabet]], the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is [[English alphabet#Letter names|''tee'']] (pronounced {{IPAc-en|'|t|iː|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-T.wav}}), plural ''tees''.<ref>"T", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "tee", ''op. cit''.</ref>

It is derived from the Semitic [[Taw]] 𐤕 of the [[Phoenician alphabet|Phoenician]] and [[Paleo-Hebrew]] script ([[Aramaic alphabet|Aramaic]] and [[Hebrew alphabet|Hebrew]] Taw ת/𐡕/[[File:Taw.svg|class=skin-invert-image|10 px]], [[Syriac alphabet|Syriac]] Taw ܬ, and [[Arabic script|Arabic]] ت [[Tāʼ]]) via the Greek letter [[tau|τ]] ([[tau]]). In English, it is most commonly used to represent the [[voiceless alveolar plosive]], a sound it also denotes in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]]. It is the most commonly used [[consonant]] and the second-most commonly used letter in English-language texts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pages.central.edu/emp/LintonT/classes/spring01/cryptography/letterfreq.html |title=Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text |last=Lewand |first=Robert |work=Cryptographical Mathematics |publisher=[[Central College (Pella, Iowa)|Central College]] |access-date=2008-06-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708193159/http://pages.central.edu/emp/LintonT/classes/spring01/cryptography/letterfreq.html |archive-date=2008-07-08 }}</ref>