We use arabic numbers but where do our letters some from?
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The original alphabet was developed by a Semitic people living in or near Egypt.*  They based it on the idea developed by the Egyptians, but used their own specific symbols.  It was quickly adopted by their neighbors and relatives to the east and north, the Canaanites, the Hebrews, and the Phoenicians.  The Phoenicians spread their alphabet to other people of the Near East and Asia Minor, as well as to the Arabs, the Greeks, and the Etruscans, and as far west as present day Spain.  The letters and names on the left are the ones used by the Phoenicians.  \n\nMore information:
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comes from latin "numero"\n\nIn French, Spanish & Italian, number is numero
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IT WOULD HELP IF YOU TOLD US WHAT LANGUAGE IT IS IN!!!!\nIM ASSUMING ITS ARABIC AND ITS A SLANG MEANInG
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The answer of all of your questions are very simple! Actually, the answer is 'ba' the second letter in arabic after 'alif' because it must all begin with the 'ba' \n'bismillahirrahmanirrahim' begins with 'ba' \nhehe.. you wont understand if you never put together your hands like you are holding water in your hand. \nwhat will you see? \nyou will see one of the simplest sign that god gave to you so you will remember your purpose to live in this world. \nwhy do you think we dont have 7 or 9 fingers in one hand? because if it is more than 5, you will not see the word Allah in arabic spelled by your fingers. Put your right hand on the table and see carefully, your thumb is 'Ha' your pinky is 'alif' and others are 'lam' which spell 'alif' 'lam' lam' 'ha' which is Allah~ start from the pinky. and if you put your palm together, there are number of name for Allah! there are 99 of them, dont ask me what is it, i dont remember it all, where is the number? \non your left palm, there are like upside down 'v' letter rite? and then there are line looks like '1' rite? on the other palm, is another upside down V and ! \nin arabic, these are 81 and 18! plus them! we got 99! this is not coincidence at all. Allah created everything with reasons and the reasons are unknown to us because we are not God!
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number is 0000500005000050000500005000050000500005000080000800058580515215641052342697543216757924432176467402637597241342194654301465276021734217645430146526740734257962443021756457624432160267579576052594984523225855
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its Hakeem ... \n\nand it means wise ....\n\nso we write it like thats حكيم\n\nif ur Pc dont read arabic letters go to ..\n\nControl Panel > regional and language > and set ur PC to arabic language ...\n\nnote : maybe u need the Cd of WIN XP ... \n\ngood luck :)
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Woah, that's a tough one. Is it from an IQ test perhaps?\n\nI haven't solved it but would suggest that we think in terms of those letters being the first letter of items in a list that we would normally know the order of.  Such as JFMAMJJASOND being the months of the year. I don't believe the order has to do with their position in the alphabet.\n\nPLEASE let us know if you get the answer!
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we say it FAREEK ... \n\nand in arabic letters like thats فريق\n\nbut should ur PC can read the arabic letters ...if not set the arabic languages in ur PC...\n\njust go to Control Panel> regional and language > and set the arabic language ...\n\ngood luck for u :)
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find arabic programmer ;)
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English has some words derived from Arabic so Arabic comes first.\n\nThe Arabic language (Arabic: اللغة العربية‎ ​ transliterated: al-lughah al-‘Arabīyyah), or simply Arabic (Arabic: عربي‎ ​ transliterated: ‘Arabī), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. It is spoken throughout the Arab world and is widely studied and known throughout the Islamic world. Arabic has been a literary language since at least the 6th century and is the liturgical language of Islam.\n\nQuite a few English words are ultimately derived from Arabic, often through other European languages, especially Spanish, among them every-day vocabulary like "sugar" (sukkar), "cotton" (quṭn) or "magazine" (maḫāzin). More recognizable are words like "algebra", "alcohol" and "zenith" (see list of English words of Arabic origin).
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i think you mean this: Ü \n\nit's a letter used in a couple of european languages (mine, for example). so either your friends are writing you in german or turkish or they're just f***ing with you
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We use the numeral system today that the muslims came up with to make math matical equations easier instead of using the roman numerals
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There have been many written in Arabic, which is against Yahoo! Answers' rules. If you do see these, help us and Yahoo! by clicking the Report Abuse link next to the offending post. Arabic is the only language that I have seen on Yahoo! Answers with non-english characters.
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The English alphabet is derived from the Roman and Greek alphabets.  These are derived from Phoenician script, which dates to about @,500 BCE.  "A" is one of those letters - but all of them are the same age.\n\nThe "A," by the way, came from a Phoenician letter that was sideways and meant an ox with its horn prominent.  The Phoenician word for "ox" corresponded with the sound of the letter.  This was an immense breaktrhough in language and writing, using letters to mean sounds rather than whole ideas, and made all of our modern language work possible - unless, of course, you are Chinese.
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is it a greek letter?
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They are called special characters. They are created by holding down the "alt" key and entering a series of numbers. \n\nFor instance:\n\n Alt + 1 =☺\n Alt + 3 = ♥\n Alt + 4 = ♦\n Alt + 251 = √\n Alt + 0134 = †\n Alt + 0189 = ½
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When I Googled for "numeric letter" (with the leading and trailing doublequotes included) and looked at some of the results, there seemed to be two major usages:\n\n1) A character in something like ASCII or Unicode (something more than just A to Z) that represents\na digit (or perhaps a digit or a Roman numeral?)\n\n2) A way of assigning numbers to words by giving\na numeric value to each letter and then adding\nthose up (for example, to see if the sum is 666).\n\nAdditionally, as a converse of (2), I think the\nancient Hebrew and ancient Greek alphabets\nrepresented numbers by stringing together the\nletters of the alphabet according to their\npreassigned numeric values so that the sum\nwas the number in question.\n\n\n(not having the Arabic numerals) by