WebThe ancient Aramaic alphabet was adapted by Arameans from the Phoenician alphabet and became a distinct script by the 8th century BC. It was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken by ancient Aramean pre-Christian tribes throughout the Fertile Crescent.It was also adopted by other peoples as their own alphabet when empires and their …

WebThe Gothic alphabet is an alphabet used for writing the Gothic language. Ulfilas (or Wulfila) developed it in the 4th century AD for the purpose of translating the Bible.. The alphabet essentially uses uncial forms of the Greek alphabet, with a few additional letters to express Gothic phonology: . Latin F and G; a questionably Runic letter to distinguish the /w/ glide …

WebHere is a basic key to the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet.For the smaller set of symbols that is sufficient for English, see Help:IPA/English.Several rare IPA symbols are not included; these are found in the main IPA article or on the extensive IPA chart.For the Manual of Style guideline for pronunciation, see Wikipedia:Manual of …

WebThe Canaanite “Hebrew” alphabet is a development from the Aramaic alphabet taking place during the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods (c. 500 BC – 50 AD). It replaced the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet which was used in the …

WebThe Phoenician and Aramaic alphabets, like their Egyptian prototype, represented only consonants, a system called an abjad.The Aramaic alphabet, which evolved from the Phoenician in the 7th century BCE, to become the official script of the Persian Empire, appears to be the ancestor of nearly all the modern alphabets of Asia except India: . The …

WebHistory Creation (1847–1854) The Deseret alphabet was a project of the Mormon pioneers, a group of early followers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) which set about building a new society in the Utah desert after the death of the church's founder, Joseph Smith.The Deseret alphabet was just one of many ways that the …

WebSinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language, as well as the liturgical languages, Pali and Sanskrit. The Sinhalese Akṣara Mālāva, one of the Brahmic …

WebIt also proves Hebrew is the first alphabet on earth. d. ARAMAIC, SQUARE, MASORETIC HEBREW: The final section in the chart to the right is superfluous to the origin of the alphabet. Around 550 BC, the Hebrews replaced the alphabet symbols they invented for the Aramaic alphabet, which ironically was directly descended from Hebrew.

WebProto-Sinaitic (also referred to as Sinaitic, Proto-Canaanite when found in Canaan, the North Semitic alphabet, or Early Alphabetic) is considered the earliest trace of alphabetic writing and the common ancestor of both the Ancient South Arabian script and the Phoenician alphabet, which led to many modern alphabets including the Greek alphabet. According …

WebThe Ugaritic writing system is a cuneiform abjad (consonantal alphabet) used from around either 1400 BCE or 1300 BCE for Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language, and discovered in Ugarit (modern Ras Al Shamra), Syria, in 1928.It has 30 letters. Other languages (particularly Hurrian) were occasionally written in the Ugaritic script in the area …