Ayb (letter)
Ayb is the first letter of the Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 1. It represents the open back unrounded vowel in both variants of the Armenian language. This letter and the letter Ben are the two first letters in the Armenian alphabet and forms the etymology of the Armenian word , meaning "alphabet." It is one of the letters originally created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century.
It is homoglyphic to the IPA symbol for the close back unrounded vowel, the Cyrillic letter Sha, the former Zhuang letter Ɯɯ used from 1957 to 1986, and the Georgian letter oni.Related characters and other similar characters
