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About M
M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of several western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is em (pronounced /ËÉm/ â), plural ems.
The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem via the Greek Mu (Î, μ). Semitic Mem is most likely derived from a "Proto-Sinaitic" (Bronze Age) adoption of the "water" ideogram in Egyptian writing. The Egyptian sign had the acrophonic value /n/, from the Egyptian word for "water", nt; the adoption as the Semitic letter for /m/ was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic word for "water", *mÄ(y)-.
In English, â¨mâ© represents the voiced bilabial nasal /m/.
The Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) says that â¨mâ© is sometimes a vowel, such as in words like spasm and in the suffix -ism. In modern terminology, this is described as a syllabic consonant (IPA: /mÌ©/).
M is the fourteenth most frequently used letter in the English language.
The letter â¨mâ© represents the voiced bilabial nasal /m/ in the orthography of Latin as well as in those of many modern languages.
In Washo, lower-case â¨mâ© represents a voiced bilabial nasal /m/, while upper-case â¨Mâ© represents a voiceless bilabial nasal /mÌ¥/.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, â¨mâ© represents the voiced bilabial nasal /m/.
