The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /'ei/) is spelled a; the plural is aes, though this is rare.
History 
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The letter A can be traced to a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian heiroglyphs or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet.
| Egyptian | Proto-Semitic (ox's head) | Phoenician (Aleph) | Greek (Alpha) | Etruscan (A) | Roman (A) |
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