Qoph or Qop (In Hebrew: Kuf) is the nineteenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet (in abjadi order). Its sound value is an emphatic (pharyngealized) velar stop, , or uvular stop . It became over time the letter Q in the Latin alphabet, and the letter Qoppa in certain early varieties of the Greek alphabet. Origins of Qoph The origin of Qoph is usually thought to have come from a pictogram of a monkey, with the body and tail shown (In Hebrew, Qoph, spelled in Hebrew letters as ???, means "monkey", and K'of in Old Egyptian meant a type of monkey). Others have proposed that it originated from a pictogram of someone's head and neck (Qaph in Arabic meant the nape). Hebrew Kuf Hebrew Pronunciation In modern Israeli Hebrew, Kuf usually represents i.e., no distinction is made betwe