Phoenician alphabetWriting system used c. 1050 to 146 BCThe Phoenician alphabet is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. It was one of the first alphabets, attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the .
Hebrew alphabetAlphabet of the Hebrew languageThe Hebrew alphabet or aleph-bet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is a unicameralabjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language. Alphabets based on the Hebrew script are used to write other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
Syriac alphabetThis article contains Syriac text, written from right to left in a cursive style with some letters joined. Without proper , you may see unjoined Syriac letters or other symbols instead of Syriac alphabet.
Ancient North ArabianCollection of scripts and possibly a language Ancient North ArabianScript type Abjad Period8th century BCE to 4th century CELanguagesDadanitic, Taymanitic, Dumaitic, Thamudic, Safaitic, HismaicRelated scriptsParent systemsProto-Sinaitic scriptSouth Semitic scriptAncient North ArabianSister systemsAncient South ArabianISO 15924ISO 15924Narb (106), Old North Arabian (Ancient North Arabian)UnicodeUnicode aliasOld North ArabianUnicode rangeU+10A80–U+10A9F Languages and scripts in 1st century Arabia Ancient North Arabian (ANA) is a collection of scripts and a language or family of languages under the North Arabian languages branch along with Old Arabic that were used in north and central Arabia and south Syria from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE.
Arabic scriptThe Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it, and the third-most by number of users (after the Latin and Chinese scripts).
Ancient South Arabian scriptThe Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵, romanized: msnd; modern Arabic: الْمُسْنَدmusnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late 2nd millennium BCE, and remained in use through the late sixth century CE. It is an abjad, a writing system where only consonants are obligatorily written, a trait shared with its predecessor, Proto-Sinaitic, as well as some of its sibling writing systems, including Arabic and Hebrew.Letter (alphabet)In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of speech—though there is rarely total one-to-one correspondence between the two. An alphabet is a writing system that uses letters.
Aramaic alphabetScript used to write the Aramaic language The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken by ancient Aramean pre-Christian peoples throughout the Fertile Crescent.ṮāʾṮāʾ (ث) is the fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪛, and South Arabian 𐩻. In Modern Standard Arabic it represents the voiceless dental fricative [θ], also found in English as the "th" in words such as "thank" and "thin".
Geʽez scriptScript used for languages in Ethiopia and EritreaGeʽez ( ; Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, romanized: Gəʽəz, IPA:) is an abugida used to write several Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Voiceless dental and alveolar plosivesVoiceless alveolar and dental plosives (or stops) are a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spokenlanguages. The alveolar is familiar to English-speakers as the ⟨t⟩ sound in stick. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolarplosives is ⟨t⟩. The voiceless dental plosive can be distinguished with the underbridge diacritic ⟨t̪⟩, and the postalveolar with a retraction line, ⟨t̠⟩.
AbjadAn abjad (; or abgad, lit.'alphabet') is a writing system in which only consonants are represented by letter signs, leaving the vowels to be inferred by the reader (unless represented otherwise, such as by diacritics). This contrasts with alphabets that provide graphemes for both consonants and vowels. The term was introduced in 1990 by Peter T. Daniels.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.