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{| class="wikitable skin-invert-image" |- ! Egyptian ! Phoenician <br />gaml ! Western Greek<br />Gamma ! Etruscan<br />C ! Old Latin<br />C (G) ! Latin <br />C |- style="text-align:center;" | | | | | | |} "C" comes from the same letter as "G". The Semites named it gimel. The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name gimel. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states "It is hard to imagine how gimel = "camel" can be derived from the picture of a camel (it may show his hump, or his head and neck!)". In the…