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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AramaicAramaic - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · Ārāmāyā in Syriac Esṭrangelā script Syriac-Aramaic alphabet. Aramaic (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: ארמית, romanized: ˀərāmiṯ; Classical Syriac: ܐܪܡܐܝܬ, romanized: arāmāˀiṯ) 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 and the Sinai Peninsula ...

   • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

     Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (Aramaic: ארמית Ārāmît) was the...

   • Old Aramaic

     Ancient Aramaic "Ancient Aramaic" refers to the earliest...

   • Modern Aramaic

     History Distribution of Neo-Aramaic languages Places where...

   • Armazic Language

     Armazic is an extinct written Aramaic language used as a...

   • Imperial Aramaic

     Imperial Aramaic (Aramaic: 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀, romanized: Ārāmāyā) is a...

   • Aram

     Aram (Imperial Aramaic: 𐡀𐡓𐡌, romanized: ʾĀrām; Hebrew:...

   • Classical Syriac

     The Syriac language ( / ˈsɪriæk / SIH-ree-ak; Classical...

   • Phoenician alphabet

     The Phoenician alphabet [b] is a consonantal alphabet (or...

   • Hebrew alphabet

     The Hebrew alphabet ( Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, [a]...

   • Arabic alphabet

     The Arabic alphabet can be traced back to the Nabataean...

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Semitic_languagesSemitic languages - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, [a] the Horn of Africa, [b] [c] Malta, [d] and in large immigrant and expatriate ...

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   What was the earliest Aramaic alphabet based on?

   • The earliest Aramaic alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet. In time, Aramaic developed its distinctive "square" style. The ancient Israelites and other peoples of Canaan adopted this alphabet for writing their own languages. Thus, it is better known as the Hebrew alphabet.

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   What is the Hebrew alphabet called?

   • The Hebrew alphabet ( Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, [a] Alefbet ivri ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.

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   What languages use Aramaic?

   • Wide use of written Aramaic subsequently led to the adoption of the Aramaic alphabet and, as logograms, some Aramaic vocabulary in the Pahlavi scripts, which were used by several Middle Iranian languages, including Parthian, Middle Persian, Sogdian, and Khwarazmian.

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   How many letters are there in the Aramaic language?

   • (The Aramaic language had fewer phonemes than the Arabic, and some originally distinct Aramaic letters had become indistinguishable in shape, so that in the early writings 14 distinct letter-shapes had to do duty for 28 sounds; cf. the similarly ambiguous Book Pahlavi .)

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4. krc.orient.ox.ac.ukThe Aramaic scripts of North Arabia - University of Oxford

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   4 days ago · The Aramaic scripts of North Arabia. Aramaic was probably introduced into North Arabia as an official written language by the last king of Babylon, Nabonidus. In 553 BC, he conquered Taymāʾ, Dadan (modern al-ʿUlā), Yathrib (modern Medina) and three other oases on the frankincense route and stayed at Taymāʾ for 10 years.