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(The modern Hebrew alphabet derives from the Aramaic alphabet, in contrast to the modern Samaritan alphabet, which derives from Paleo-Hebrew.) The letters in the Aramaic alphabet all represent consonants , some of which are also used as matres lectionis to indicate long vowels .
- Imperial Aramaic
The Aramaic alphabet was adapted to write quite a few other languages, and developed into a number of new alphabets, including the Hebrew square script and cursive script, Nabataean, Syriac, Palmyrenean, Mandaic, Sogdian, Mongolian and probably the Old Turkic script.
- Ancient Aramaic. Ancient Aramaic is the language of the ancient Aramaic inscriptions up to 700 B.C.E. (from Upper Mesopotamia, northern Syria, and northern Israel).
- Official Aramaic. Official Aramaic was in use from 700 to 300 B.C.E. It includes inscriptions from the Syria-Iraq area; biblical Aramaic (though opinions vary as to its origin in the different biblical passages, see below Ancient and Official Aramaic, and the Origin of the Aramaic Portions in Ezra and Daniel); the *Elephantine documents; the Driver documents; and the Hermopolis documents.
- Middle Aramaic. Middle Aramaic was used from 300 B.C.E. to the early centuries C.E. Included are documents, in somewhat corrupt Aramaic, from Persia, India, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus.
- Late Aramaic. Late Aramaic may be divided into two dialectal groups: Western Aramaic – including Galilean Aramaic, Palestinian-Christian Aramaic, and Samaritan Aramaic; and Eastern Aramaic – consisting of three dialects: Syriac, the language of the Babylonian Talmud, and Mandaic.
The Aramaic alphabet consists of 22 letters, all indicating consonants (though some can also represent vowels), and it is written from right to left. It is ancestral to Square Hebrew and the modern Hebrew alphabet , the Nabataean and modern Arabic scripts, the Palmyrenian alphabet, and the Syriac , as well as hundreds of other writing systems ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Aramaic alphabet is identical to the Hebrew alphabet. It consists of twenty-three consonants, and it is written from right to left. For the purpose of review, this alphabet is presented below. Aramaic final forms. Like Hebrew, five of the Aramaic consonants have final forms.
This article is about the alphabet derived from the Aramaic alphabet (CE 135 – present). For the original Hebrew alphabet derived directly from the Phoenician alphabet (10th century BCE – CE 135), see Paleo-Hebrew alphabet. For the descendant script of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, see Samaritan script. For the insect, see Hebrew character.
Hebrew alphabet (Jewish) Historically Phoenician alphabet, Aramaic alphabet: Language codes; ISO 639-3: Variously: arc – Imperial Aramaic syc – Classical Syriac myz – Classical Mandaic xrm – Armazic language bjf – Barzani Neo-Aramaic bhn – Bohtan Neo-Aramaic hrt – Hertevin Neo-Aramaic aij – Inter-Zab Neo-Aramaic
