Figure Two: "Representative selection of proto-Sinaitic characters with comparison to Egyptian hieroglyphs", (p.

Figure Three: "Chart of all early proto-Canaanite letters with comparison to proto-Sinaitic signs" (p. See also: Goldwasser (2010), following Albright (1966), "Schematic Table of Proto-Sinaitic Characters" ( fig. The letter ⟨m⟩ represents the bilabial nasal consonant sound [ m] in the orthography of Latin as well as in that of many modern languages, and also in the International Phonetic Alphabet. M" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "em," op. In English, the Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) says that ⟨m⟩ is sometimes a vowel, in words like spasm and in the suffix -ism.

Figure Four: "Representative selection of later proto-Canaanite letters with comparison to early proto-Canaanite and proto-Sinaitic signs" (p. M, or m, is the thirteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Collins English Dictionary: m- Collins English Dictionary: M'- Collins English Dictionary: 'm American English Dictionary (1): M¹ American English Dictionary (1): M² American English Dictionary (1): m¹ American English Dictionary (1): m² American English Dictionary (1): M'- American English Dictionary (1): m- American English Dictionary (1): -'m American English Dictionary (2): m¹ American English Dictionary (2): m² American English Dictionary (2): M¹ American English Dictionary (2): M² American English Dictionary (2): M American English Dictionary (2): m. Learner's Dictionary: M Learner's Dictionary: -'m Collins English Dictionary: m¹ Collins English Dictionary: m² Collins English Dictionary: M Collins English Dictionary: m. In typography, an em dash is a punctuation symbol whose width is equal to that of a capital letter M.

In Washo, lower-case ⟨m⟩ represents a typical em sound, while upper-case ⟨M⟩ represents a voiceless em sound.

The Egyptian sign had the acrophonic value /n/, from the Egyptian word for "water", nt; the adoption as the Semitic letter for /m/ was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic word for "water", *mā(y)-. Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

Semitic Mem is most likely derived from a " Proto-Sinaitic" ( Bronze Age) adoption of the "water" ideogram in Egyptian writing.