M 19191 225548763 2008-07-14T07:10:44Z Jumbuck 116385 robot Adding: [[kw:M]] Modifying: [[uz:M (harf)]] {{otherusesof}} {{wiktionarypar2|M|m}} {{Latin alphabet navbox|uc=M|lc=m}} '''M''' is the thirteenth letter of the modern [[Latin alphabet]]. Its name in [[English language|English]] is spelled '''em''' ({{pronEng|ɛm}}).<ref>"M" ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "em," op. cit.</ref> ==History== The letter '''M''' derives its shape from the [[Phoenician alphabet|Phoenician]] [[Mem]], via the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] [[Mu (letter)|Mu]] (Μ, μ). Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water. It is known that Semitic people working in Egypt c. 2000 BC borrowed a hieroglyph for Water that was first used for an [[alveolar nasal]] ({{IPA|/n/}}, because of the Egyptian word for Water, "n-t". This same symbol became used for M in Semitic, because their word for water began with that sound. {| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;text-align:center;" |- bgcolor="#EEEEEE" ! Egyptian hieroglyph "N" ! Proto-Semitic M ! Phoenician M ! Etruscan M ! Greek Mu ! Roman M |----- |<hiero>n</hiero> |[[Image:Proto-semiticM-01.png]] |[[Image:PhoenicianM-01.png]] |[[Image:EtruscanM-01.png]] |[[Image:Mu uc lc.svg|64px]] |[[Image:RomanM-01.png|Roman M]] |} The letter M represents the [[bilabial]] [[nasal consonant]] sound, {{IPA2|m}}, in Classical languages as well as the modern [[language]]s. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (first edition) says that 'm' is sometimes a [[vowel]] in words like ''spasm'' and in the [[suffix (linguistics)|suffix]] ''-ism''. In modern terminology, this would be described as a [[syllabic consonant]] &mdash; IPA {{IPA|[m̩]}}. ==Codes for computing== {{Letter |NATO=Mike |Morse=–– |Character=M |Braille=⠍ }} In [[Unicode]] the [[majuscule|capital]] M is codepoint U+004D and the [[lower case]] m is U+006D. The [[ASCII]] code for capital M is 77 and for lowercase m is 109; or in [[Binary numeral system|binary]] 01001101 and 01101101, correspondingly. The [[EBCDIC]] code for capital M is 212 and for lowercase m is 148. The [[numeric character reference]]s in [[HTML]] and [[XML]] are "<tt>&amp;#77;</tt>" and "<tt>&amp;#109;</tt>" for upper and lower case respectively. ==Meanings of M== :''See [[M (disambiguation)]].'' ==References== {{reflist}} ==See also== {{Commons|M}} *[[Em (Cyrillic)|М, м - Em (Cyrillic)]] *[[Mu (letter)|Μ, μ - Mu (Greek)]] {{Latin alphabet}} [[Category:Latin letters]] [[af:M]] [[als:M]] [[ar:M]] [[arc:M]] [[ast:M]] [[az:M]] [[zh-min-nan:M]] [[bs:M]] [[br:M (lizherenn)]] [[bg:M]] [[ca:M]] [[cs:M]] [[co:M]] [[cy:M]] [[da:M]] [[de:M]] [[et:M]] [[el:M]] [[es:M]] [[eo:M]] [[eu:M]] [[fa:M]] [[fr:M (lettre)]] [[fur:M]] [[gan:M]] [[gd:M]] [[gl:M]] [[ko:M]] [[hr:M]] [[ilo:M]] [[is:M]] [[it:M]] [[he:M]] [[ka:M]] [[kw:M]] [[sw:M]] [[ht:M]] [[la:M]] [[lv:M]] [[lt:M]] [[hu:M]] [[mzn:M]] [[nah:M]] [[nl:M (letter)]] [[ja:M]] [[no:M (bokstav)]] [[nn:M]] [[nrm:M]] [[uz:M (harf)]] [[pl:M]] [[pt:M]] [[ro:M]] [[qu:M]] [[ru:M (латиница)]] [[se:M]] [[scn:M]] [[simple:M]] [[sk:M]] [[sl:M]] [[sr:M (слово латинице)]] [[fi:M]] [[sv:M]] [[tl:M]] [[th:M]] [[vi:M]] [[tr:M]] [[uk:M (латиниця)]] [[vo:M]] [[yo:M]] [[zh-yue:M]] [[bat-smg:M]] [[zh:M]]