Who invented the the letter p?

Question

Best answer gets 10 points.

Answer 1

Origin -- the Semitic-speaking people who invented the first alphabet ca. 1900 B.C.

A millennium later Phoenician traders passed it on to the Greeks, thence to the Etruscans, from whom the Romans borrowed their letters, essentially the ones we use today. Of course, the form of the letter changed a bit over the centuries, and when passed from one group to another.

Here's some pictures of ancient forms of the letters --the forms used by the Phoenicians, and more ancient ones. The "pi/pe" is the 17th letter in the chart:
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/alphabet.html

Answer 2

Ptolemy the Perfect. Pharaoh of Egypt. His perfection precluded perhaps practically every person presented in past periods.
SO you see he needed the letter.
He asked his sister what letter would be best so she said "Quit bothering me and go take a P." He did and the rest, as they say, is history.
I told my Pa that I got a car, could not remember what kind, but it started with P. He said his started with Gas. I remembered Plymouth.
Pop was a perfect purveyor of prevarication, practically perfect pronouncements preceded pernicious propensity of a preponderance of practically all preposterous preaching.

Answer 3

The Semitic Pê (mouth), as well as the Greek Π or π (Pi), and the Etruscan and Latin letters that developed from the former alphabet, all symbolized /p/,