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'''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.
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|- 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]] — 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>&#77;</tt>" and "<tt>&#109;</tt>" for upper and lower case respectively.
==Meanings of M==
:''See [[M (disambiguation)]].''
==References==
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==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]]