is the reconstructed name of the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician . Aleph originally represented the glottal stop (IPA ), usually transliterated as (U+02BE) "modifier letter right half ring", a character of the Unicode Spacing Modifier Letters range, based on the Greek spiritus lenis . For example in the transliteration of the letter name itself, ''. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Alpha (Α), being re-interpre… (More on Aleph)