The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.It describes 763 signs in 26 categories (A–Z, roughly). Georg Möller compiled more extensive lists, …

Gimel is the third letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Gīml , Hebrew Gimel ג, Aramaic Gāmal , Syriac Gāmal ܓ, and Arabic ǧīm ج (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order). Its sound value in the original Phoenician and in all derived alphabets, except Arabic, is a voiced velar plosive []; in Modern Standard Arabic, it represents either a /d͡ʒ/ or /ʒ/ for most ...

Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Shin ???? ‎, Hebrew Shin ש ‎, Aramaic Shin ???? ‎, Syriac Shin ܫ, and Arabic Shin ش (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order).Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant, [] or [].. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave Latin S and Cyrillic ...

"Paleo-Hebrew alphabet" is the modern term (coined by Solomon Birnbaum in 1954) used for the script otherwise known as the Phoenician alphabet when used to write Hebrew, or when found in the context of the ancient Israelite kingdoms. This script was used in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah as well as throughout Canaan more generally, during the 10th to 7th centuries BCE.

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 an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.It is also used informally in Israel to write Levantine Arabic ...

Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep ????, Hebrew ʾālef א, Aramaic ʾālap ????, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ, Arabic ʾ alif ا, Persian ʾalef ا, and North Arabian ????. It also appears as South Arabian ???? and Ge'ez ʾälef አ.. These letters are believed to have derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph depicting an ox's ...

The Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in Canaanite inscriptions from the region of biblical Israel and Judah.It is considered to be the script used to record the original texts of the Hebrew Bible due to its similarity to the Samaritan script, as the Talmud stated that the Hebrew ancient ...

Hebrew University archaeologist Amihai Mazar said that the inscription was "proto-Canaanite" but cautioned that "The ... Proto-Sinaitic. It is believed that the original shapes of the ... Further diacritics may serve to indicate variations in the pronunciation of the consonants (e.g. bet/vet, shin/sin); and, in some contexts, to ...

Tsade (also spelled ṣade, ṣādē, ṣaddi, ṣad, tzadi, sadhe, tzaddik) is the eighteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ṣādē , Hebrew ṣādi צ, Aramaic ṣāḏē , Syriac ṣāḏē ܨ, Ge'ez ṣädäy ጸ, and Arabic ṣād ص.Its oldest phonetic value is under debate, although there is a variety of pronunciations in different modern Semitic languages and ...

Biblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית, (Ivrit Miqra'it) (help · info) or לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא, (Leshon ha-Miqra) (help · info)), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and ...