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Aramaic was once the main language of the Jews and appears in some of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is still used as a liturgical language by Christian communities in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, and is spoken by small numbers of people in Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Armenia, Georgia and Syria.
How to count in Aramaic ( ארמית ), a Semitic language that was the lingua franca of much of the Near East from about 7th century BC until the 7th century AD. If any of the numbers are links, you can hear a recording by clicking on them.
The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken by ancient Aramean pre-Christian tribes throughout the Fertile Crescent.
In these lessons on the Aramaic Alphabet, you will gradually be introduced to each of the Aramaic letters in turn, how to write them, and how to pronounce them.
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The Aramaic alphabet consists of 22 letters, all indicating consonants (though some can also represent vowels), and it is written from right to left.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hebrew letters are sometimes used to express numbers. For example, Aleph stands for 1, Bet for 2, and so on. The following table lists numeric values for letters:
Jan 7, 1998 · From now on, the numbers are easy. You combine what you have just learned with number in the tens place and the ones place. You can also combine what you have learned with what you will now learn. EXAMPLE: for 31, you say "30"-"1" (klay-kha). EXAMPLE: for 121, you say "100-20-1" (imo-isrree-kha)
