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  2. Paleo-Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, including pre-Biblical and Biblical Hebrew, from southern Canaan, also known as the biblical kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah.

  3. Native American name controversy - Wikipedia

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    The English adjective "aboriginal" and the noun "aborigine" come from a Latin phrase meaning "from the origin"; the ancient Romans used it to refer to a contemporary group, one of many ancient peoples in Italy. Until about 1910, these terms were used in English to refer to various Indigenous peoples.

  4. Ojibwe writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Labialized stop consonants [ɡʷ] and [kʷ], consisting of a consonant with noticeable lip rounding, occur in the speech of some speakers. Labialization is not normally indicated in writing, but a subscript dot is used in a dictionary of Ottawa and Eastern Ojibwe to mark labialization: g̣taaji "he is afraid" and aaḳzi "he is sick".

  5. Biblical names in their native languages - Wikipedia

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    This table is a list of names in the Bible in their native languages. This table is only in its beginning stages. There are thousands of names in the Bible. It will take the work of many Wikipedia users to make this table complete.

  6. Aborigine - Wikipedia

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    Aborigine, aborigine or aboriginal may refer to: Aborigines (mythology), the oldest inhabitants of central Italy in Roman mythology; Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area; One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see List of indigenous peoples, including:

  7. Cree syllabics - Wikipedia

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    Cree syllabics were developed for Ojibwe by James Evans, a missionary in what is now Manitoba in the 1830s. Evans had originally adapted the Latin script to Ojibwe (see Evans system), but after learning of the success of the Cherokee syllabary, [additional citation(s) needed] he experimented with invented scripts based on his familiarity with shorthand and Devanagari.

  8. Aramaic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Canadian Aboriginal 1840; Hebrew 3rd c. BCE Square Aramaic 2007; Pahlavi 3rd c. BCE Avestan 4th century; Palmyrene 2nd c. BCE; Nabataean 2nd c. BCE Arabic 4th century N'Ko 1949; Syriac 2nd c. BCE Sogdian 2nd c. BCE Old Turkic 6th century Old Hungarian c. 650; Old Uyghur. Mongolian 1204; Mandaic 2nd century; Greek 8th c. BCE Etruscan 8th c. BCE ...

  9. Bible translations into Native American languages - Wikipedia

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    The Wampanoag language or "Massachuset language" (Algonquian family) was the first North American Indian language into which any Bible translation was made; John Eliot began his Natick version in 1653 and finished it in 1661-63, with a revised edition in 1680-85. It was the first Bible to be printed in North America.