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{| class="wikitable" ! Egyptian hieroglyph<br>qʼ !Proto-Sinaitic !Proto-Canaanite hillul ! Phoenician<br/>He ! Western Greek<br/>Epsilon ! Etruscan<br/>E ! Latin<br/>E |--- align=center | <hiero>A28</hiero> | | | | | | |} The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter hê, which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (hillul, 'jubilation'), and was most likely based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated a different pronunciation. In Semitic, the letter represented (and in foreign words); in Greek, hê became the letter epsilon, used to represent . The various forms of the…