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{| class="wikitable skin-invert-image" |- ! Egyptian ! Phoenician <br />gaml ! Western Greek<br />Gamma ! Etruscan<br />C ! Old Latin<br />C ! Latin <br />G |- style="text-align:center;" | | | | | | |} The evolution of the Latin alphabet's G can be traced back to the Latin alphabet's predecessor, the Greek alphabet. The voiced velar stop was represented by the third letter of the Greek alphabet, gamma (Γ), which was later adopted by the Etruscan language. Latin then borrowed this "rounded form" of gamma, C, to represent the same sound in words such as recei, which was likely an early dative form of rex, meaning "king", as found in an "early Latin inscription." Over time, however, the letter…