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b B probably started as a picture sign of a house, as in Egyptian hieroglyphic writing (1) and in a very early Semitic writing (2). In about 1000 bce, in Byblos and in other Phoenician and Canaanite centres, the sign was given a linear form (3).In the Semitic languages the sign was called beth, meaning “house,” but the Greeks changed this name from beth to beta.
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