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4 days ago · The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, 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 ...
- Aleph
Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first...
- Paleo-Hebrew Alphabet
The Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets developed in the...
- Biblical Hebrew Phonology
Biblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית (Ivrit Miqra'it) ⓘ or...
- Cursive Hebrew
Cursive Hebrew (Hebrew: כתב עברי רהוט ktav ivri rahut,...
- Abjad
An abjad (/ ˈ æ b dʒ æ d /, Arabic: أبجد), also abgad, is a...
- Dalet
Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth...
- Heth
Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of...
- 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
2 days ago · Modern distribution of the Semitic languages. Approximate historical distribution of Semitic languages. The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages.
4 days ago · Aramaic was the language of Jesus, who spoke the Galilean dialect during his public ministry, as well as the language of several sections of the Hebrew Bible, including parts of the books of Daniel and Ezra, and also the language of the Targum, the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible.
3 days ago · Yiddish ( ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ (j)ɪdɪʃ], lit.'Jewish'; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh, lit.'Judeo-German') [9] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.
5 days ago · A similar number of people speak the Afroasiatic languages, which include the populous Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew language, and the languages of the Sahara region, such as the Berber languages and Hausa.
3 days ago · Ashkenazi Jews are originally from Germany and Eastern Europe (Ashkenazim come from “Ashkenazic” the Hebrew word for Germany). Yiddish, is a blend of German and Hebrew languages. From the late 19th and through first half of the 20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews left Germany to live in the United States and the modern State of Israel.