P or p is the sixteenth letter of the modern English alphabet and the basic Latin ISO alphabet. Its English name is pee (pronounced / ˈpiː /), plural pees.

Semitic Pê (mouth), as well as the Greek Π or π (Pi), as well as the Etruscan and Latin letters that evolved from the previous alphabet, all symbolize / p /, a voiceless bilabial plosive

In English spelling and in most other European languages, sp⟩ languages ​​represent the / p / sound.

A common digraph in English is ⟩ph⟩, which represents the sound / f / and can be used to transliterate ⟨φ⟩ phi into borrowings from Greek. In German, the digraph ⟨pf⟩, representing the labial affricate/pf/, is common.

Most English words beginning with ⟨p of are of foreign origin, especially French, Latin, Greek and Slavic; these languages ​​retain the Proto-Indo-European initial * p. Native English relatives of such words often begin with ⟨f⟩ because English is a German language and is therefore subject to Grimm’s law; a native English word with the initial / p / would reflect the Proto-Indo-European initial * b, which is so rare that its existence as a phoneme is disputed.

However, native English words with non-initial ⟨p⟩ are quite common; such words can come either from Kluge’s law or from the consonant group/sp / (PIE * p is kept afters).

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, / p / is used to represent the voiceless bilabial plosive.

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