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3 days ago · In addition, the Arabic alphabet can be used to represent numbers (Abjad numerals). This usage is based on the ʾabjadī order of the alphabet. أ ʾalif is 1, ب bāʾ is 2, ج jīm is 3, and so on until ي yāʾ = 10, ك kāf = 20, ل lām = 30, ..., ر rāʾ = 200, ..., غ ghayn = 1000. This is sometimes used to produce chronograms. History
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3 days ago · The Arabic alphabet is derived either from the Nabataean alphabet or (less widely believed) directly from the Syriac alphabet, which are both derived from the Aramaic alphabet (which also gave rise to the Hebrew alphabet), which, in turn, descended from the Phoenician alphabet.
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4 days ago · Ge’ez script is a script used in modern-day Eritrea and Ethiopia that dates back to the 1st century CE. Ge’ez was derived from the Ancient South Arabian script from the region around modern-day YemenUnlike a modern alphabet, the script began as an abjad, where only consonant letters are listed, but became an abugida, or a writing system ...
3 days ago · South Arabian; h : ሀ: 𐩠: l : ለ: 𐩡: ḥ : ሐ: 𐩢: m : መ: 𐩣: ś : ሠ: 𐩦: r : ረ: 𐩧: s : ሰ: 𐩪: q : ቀ: 𐩤: b : በ: 𐩨: t : ተ: 𐩩: h̬ : ኀ: 𐩭: n : ነ: 𐩬 ' አ: 𐩱: k : ከ: 𐩫: w : ወ: 𐩥: ʿ : ዐ: 𐩲: z : ዘ: 𐩹: y : የ: 𐩺: d : ደ: 𐩵: g : ገ: 𐩴: ṭ : ጠ: 𐩷: ṣ : ጸ ...
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- c. 1st century CE to present (abjad until c. 4th century CE)
4 days ago · The Modern South Arabian languages Mehri, Ḥarsusi, Hobyot, Jibbali (also known as Śḥeri), and Socotri exist alongside Arabic on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent islands.
5 days ago · The Taymanitic alphabet is probably mentioned as early as c. 800 BC when the regent of Carchemish (on what is now the Turkish-Syrian border) claimed to have learned it. About the same time an Assyrian official west of the Euphrates reported that he had ambushed a caravan of the people of Taymāʾ and Sabaʾ (an ancient South Arabian kingdom ...
3 days ago · Arabic language, a Semitic language spoken in areas including North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. The language of the Qur’an (the sacred book of Islam) is often considered the ideal archetype of Arabic’s many varieties, and the literary standard closely approaches that archetype.
