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  2. Aramaic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Today, Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects and the Aramaic language of the Talmud are written in the modern-Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the Old Hebrew script. In classical Jewish literature , the name given to the modern-Hebrew script was "Ashurit", the ancient Assyrian script, [ 17 ] a script now known widely as the Aramaic ...

  3. Palmyrene alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Palmyrene alphabet was a historical Semitic alphabet used to write Palmyrene Aramaic. It was used between 100 BCE and 300 CE in Palmyra in the Syrian desert. The oldest surviving Palmyrene inscription dates to 44 BCE. [ 2 ]

  4. Aramaic - Wikipedia

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    Ārāmāyā in Syriac Esṭrangelā script Syriac-Aramaic alphabet. Aramaic (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: ארמית, romanized: ˀərāmiṯ; Classical Syriac: ܐܪܡܐܝܬ, romanized: arāmāˀiṯ [a]) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia [3] [4] and the ...

  5. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The paleo-Hebrew alphabet was used in the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Following the Babylonian exile of the Kingdom of Judah in the 6th century BCE, Jews began using a form of the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, another offshoot of the same family of scripts, which flourished during the Achaemenid Empire.

  6. Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Aramaic alphabet, used to write Aramaic, is an early descendant of Phoenician. Aramaic, being the lingua franca of the Middle East, was widely adopted. It later split off into a number of related alphabets, including Hebrew , Syriac , and Nabataean , the latter of which, in its cursive form, became an ancestor of the Arabic alphabet .

  7. Yodh - Wikipedia

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    Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician yōd 𐤉, Hebrew yud י ‎, Aramaic yod 𐡉, Syriac yōḏ ܝ, and Arabic yāʾ ي ‎. Its sound value is /j/ in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel, representing /iː/. [citation needed]

  8. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Phoenician and Aramaic alphabets, like their Egyptian prototype, represented only consonants, a system called an abjad. The Aramaic alphabet, which evolved from the Phoenician in the 7th century BC, to become the official script of the Achaemenid Empire, appears to be the ancestor of nearly all the modern alphabets of Asia:

  9. Qoph - Wikipedia

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    Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician qōp 𐤒, Hebrew qūp̄ ק ‎, Aramaic qop 𐡒, Syriac qōp̄ ܩ, and Arabic qāf ق ‎. Its original sound value was a West Semitic emphatic stop, presumably . In Hebrew numerals, it has the numerical value of 100.