This page groups letters by the number each one stands for under gematria. Wikipedia notes that gematria "is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word, or phrase by reading it as a number," with the letters of the alphabet carrying "standard numerical values." Browsing by numerology-value lets a visitor find every letter carrying the same numerical value.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingThe twenty-six letters of the modern Latin alphabet. It is not a sacred alphabet in any tradition: it stands here as the ordinary script the Theban cipher substitutes for, and as the alphabet that modern letter-number systems count on. 2 Size of the Traditional SetTwenty-six letters, J, U and W being medieval and later additions 2Tradition: The modern Latin alphabet Size of the Traditional SetTwenty-three letters 2Tradition: The classical Latin alphabet Origins
Origin Periodc. 700 BCE, adapted through Etruscan from a western Greek alphabet 2 Learn More
The Roman letters
This group gathers the letters of the Roman (Latin) alphabet, the script derived from the Greek by way of the Etruscans and spread across the world by Rome and later by Western Christendom. It is the most widely used alphabet today.
The browser will find the individual letters and their meanings. The entries describe each letter's form and history, and the symbolic and numerical associations that have been attached to it.
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. The World's Writing Systems
Peter T. Daniels and William Bright (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1996pt. 4, on the Roman alphabetView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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