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EDIT Why is A the first letter of the alphabet?
There is a United Kingdom television series called Time Team which is about Archaeology.

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In a programme about a henge at Durrington Walls an A frame was used to erect a very large vertical wooden post in an exercise. It was said that there was no evidence that an A frame had been used to erect the original posts in about 2500 BC, yet that the technique of an A frame was known in various places around the world at that time.

That got me thinking. It is called an A frame today because it looks like a letter A in the Latin alphabet. Could it be that the letter A is at the start of the Greek and Latin alphabets because a structure of that shape was used to erect posts at the start of a construction task and so a structure of that shape was used to start the structure of the alphabet?

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U+0041
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A

U+0410
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A

U+13AA
CHEROKEE LETTER GO


01	CODE POINT VALUE: : : : :	0391
02	NAME (UNICODE NAME) : : :	GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA
03	GENERAL CATEGORY: : : : :	Letter, Uppercase
04	COMBINING CLASS : : : : :	Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined
05	BIDIRECTIONAL CATEGORY: :	Left-to-Right
06	DECOMPOSITION MAPPING : :	-
07	DECIMAL DIGIT VALUE : : :	-
08	DIGIT VALUE : : : : : : :	-
09	NUMERIC VALUE : : : : : :	-
10	MIRRORED: : : : : : : : :	No
11	UNICODE 1.0 NAME: : : : :	GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA
12	ISO 10646 COMMENT FIELD :	-


13	UPPERCASE MAPPING : : : :	-
14	LOWERCASE MAPPING : : : :	U+03B1
15	TITLECASE MAPPING : : : :	-
16	DECIMAL VALUE : : : : : :	913
17	UTF-8 HEX VALUE : : : : :	0xCE91
18	UTF-16 HEX VALUE: : : : :	0x0391
19	UTF-32 HEX VALUE: : : : :	0x00000391
20	XHTML : : : : : : : : : :	&#913
21	BLOCK : : : : : : : : : :	Greek and Coptic
22	PLANE : : : : : : : : : :	Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
23	STROKE NUMBER : : : : : :	-
24	RADICAL : : : : : : : : :	-