The letter A can be traced to a head pictogram of a bull in Egyptian hieroglyphics or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet.Around 1600 BC the letters in the Phoenician alphabet had a linear form which became the basis for subsequent forms. His name seems to be very closely related to alef in the Hebrew alphabet.When the ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, they did not use the cleft consonants (the sound of hamzah) contained in this letter in Phoenician and other Semitic languages, so they used this sign for vowels / a /, and retained their name with minor changes ( alpha). In the earliest Greek inscriptions after the Greek Dark Period, which occurred in the 8th century BC, this letter was written lying down, but in the subsequent Greek alphabet, this letter is generally similar to uppercase modern A, although various local variations can be distinguished by shortening one of its legs, or by the angle where the transverse line is placed.The Etruscans brought the Greek alphabet into their civilization in the Italian Peninsula and left this letter unchanged. Then the Romans adopted the Etruscan alphabet to write Latin, and the letters produced were then preserved in the modern Latin alphabet which was used to write many languages, including English.