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History Paleo-Hebrew alphabet containing 22 letters, period, geresh, and gershayim The Aleppo Codex, a tenth century Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. Book of Joshua 1:1 Main article: History of the Hebrew alphabet The Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before around 1000 BCE. An example of related early Semitic inscriptions from the area include the tenth-century Gezer ...
- Aleph
Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first...
- Paleo-Hebrew Alphabet
The Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also...
- Biblical Hebrew Phonology
Biblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית (Ivrit Miqra'it) ⓘ or...
- Abjad
Etymology. The name abjad is based on the Arabic alphabet's...
- Dalet
Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth...
- Heth
Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of...
- Yiddish Alphabet
Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the...
- Canaanite Languages
The Canaanite languages, sometimes referred to as Canaanite...
- Ktav Ashuri
Pirkei Avot in the Ashurit script, with Babylonian...
- Mozarabic
Consuelo López Morillas criticizes this kind of a...
- Aleph
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Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters correspond to phonemes, the categories of sounds that can distinguish one word from another in a given language.
The order of the letters of the alphabet is attested from the fourteenth century BCE in the town of Ugarit on Syria's northern coast. Tablets found there bear over one thousand cuneiform signs, but these signs are not Babylonian and there are only thirty distinct characters. About twelve of the tablets have the signs set out in alphabetic order.
A letter is a type of grapheme, the smallest functional unit within a writing system. Letters are graphemes that broadly correspond to phonemes, the smallest functional units of sound in speech. Similarly to how phonemes are combined to form spoken words, letters may be combined to form written words.
The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet of 26 letters (each having an uppercase and a lowercase form) – exactly the same letters that are found in the ISO basic Latin alphabet: The exact shape of printed letters changes depending on the typeface (and font).
It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, of which most have contextual letterforms. The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad, with only consonants required to be written; due to its optional use of diacritics to notate vowels, it is considered an impure abjad.