Published on 2025-08-13

The letter A comes from a bull's head

The letter A draws its origin from a pictogram representing a bull's head with its horns in the Sinai desert in the 15th century BC. Users used this drawing to transcribe the initial sound of the word designating the animal in their Semitic language. This is how the letter inherited the name of aleph, which meant bull in Hebrew.
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