B

The letter B is the second letter of the modern Latin alphabet.

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The letter B probably started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a house in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-semitic alphabet.

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By 1500 BC, the Phoenician alphabet's letter had a linear form that served as the basis for all later forms, which appeared in both the angular and more rounded forms. Its name must have corresponded closely to the Hebrew beth.

House: :For other meanings of the word "house", see House (disambiguation)....

Egyptian hieroglyph: Hieroglyphs are a system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements....

Proto-semitic alphabet: Proto-semitic meaning a form of language that is the ancestor of the Semitic written language. Two such languages are Sinaitic and Canaanitic....