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{{Latin letter info|b}}

'''B''' ([[Inglish_alphabet#Letter_names|named]] ''bee'' {{IPAc-en|'|b|iː}}<ref>"B" ''Oxford Inglis Dictionary,'' 2nt edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New Internaitional Dictionary o the Inglis Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "bee", ''op. cit.''</ref>) is the seicont [[Letter (alphabet)|letter]] in the [[ISO basic Latin alphabet]]. It is uised tae represent a variety o [[bilabial consonant|bilabial soonds]] (dependin on leid), but maist commonly a [[voiced bilabial stop]].

==History==
The caipital letter 'B' mey hae stairtit as a [[pictogram]] o the floorplan o a hoose in [[Egyptian hieroglyph]]s. Bi [[1050 BC]], the [[Phoenician alphabet]]'s letter haed a linear fairm that served as the beth.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Egyptian hieroglyph <br>cottage
! [[Phoenician alphabet|Phoenician]]&#160;<br>''[[Bet (letter)|beth]]''
! [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] <br>''[[Beta (letter)|Beta]]''
! [[Etruscan alphabet|Etruscan]] <br>B
! Roman <br>B
|- style="background-color:white; text-align:center;"
| [[File:EgyptianB-01.svg|64px|Egyptian hieroglyphic hoose]]
| [[File:PhoenicianB-01.svg|45px|Phoenician beth]]
| [[File:Beta uc lc.svg|50px|Greek beta]]
| [[File:EtruscanB-01.svg|30px|Etruscan B]]
| [[File:RomanB-01.svg|20px|Roman B]]
|}

==Typografie==
The modren lawercase 'b' derives frae later [[Roman cursive#New Roman cursive|Roman]] times, when scribes began omittin the upper loop o the caipital.
{|
|align="center"|[[File:BlackletterB-01.png|Blackletter B]]
|align="center"|[[File:UncialB-01.png|Uncial B]]
|-
|align="center"|[[Blackletter]] B
|align="center"|[[Uncial script|Uncial]] B
|-
|align="center"|[[File:ModernRomanB-01.png|Modren Roman B]]
|align="center"|[[File:ModernItalicB-01.png|Modren Italic B]]
|align="center"|[[File:ModernScriptB-01.png|Modren Script B]]
|-
|align="center"|Modren Roman B
|align="center"|Modren Italic B
|align="center"|Modren Script B
|}

==Uise==

In [[Inglish leid|Inglis]], maist ither leids that uise the [[Latin script|Latin alphabet]], an the [[Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet]], 'b' denotes the [[voiced bilabial plosive]] {{IPAslink|b}}, as in 'bib'. In Inglis it is whiles silent; maist instances are derived frae auld monosyllablic wirds wi the 'b' final an immediately precedit bi an 'm', sic as 'lam'''b'''' an 'bom'''b''''; a few are ensaumples o [[etymology|etymological]] spellin tae mak the wird mair lik its [[Latin leid|Latin]] oreeginal, sic as 'debt' or 'doubt'. 

In [[Estonian leid|Estonian]], [[Icelandic leid|Icelandic]], an [[Cheenese leid|Cheenese]] [[pinyin]], 'b' daes nae denote a voiced consonant; insteid, it represents a voiceless {{IPA|/p/}} that contrasts wi aither a [[geminate]]d {{IPA|/pp/}} (in Estonie) or an [[aspiration (linguistics)|aspirated]] {{IPA|/pʰ/}} (in Cheenese, Danish an Icelandic), representit bi '[[p]]'. In [[Fijian leid|Fijian]] 'b' represents a [[prenasalized consonant|prenasalized]] {{IPA|/mb/}}, whauras in [[Zulu leid|Zulu]] an [[Xhosa leid|Xhosa]] it represents an [[implosive consonant|implosive]] {{IPA|/ɓ/}}, in contrast tae the [[digraph (orthography)|digraph]] 'bh' which represents {{IPA|/b/}}.

[[Finnish leid|Finnish]] anly uises 'b' in [[loanwirds]].

'B' is an aa a [[muisical note]]. Its value varies dependin on the [[region]]; a 'b' in Anglophone kintras represents a note that is a semitone heicher than the B note in Northren Continental Europe. (Anglophone B is representit in Northren Europe wi 'H'.) Archaic fairms o 'b', the ''b quadratum'' (square b, {{music|natural}}) an ''b rotundum'' (roond b, {{music|b}}) remain in uise for muisical notation as the seembols for ''[[naitural (muisic)|naitural]]'' an ''[[flat (muisic)|flat]]'', respectively.

In Contractit (grade 2) Inglis braille, 'b' staunds for "but" when in isolation.

==References==
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==Freemit airtins==
*{{Commons-inline|B}}
*{{Wiktionary-inline|B}}
*{{Wiktionary-inline|b}}

{{Latin alphabet|B|}}

[[Category:ISO basic Latin letters]]