Manuscripts of the Samaritan Pentateuch are written in a different script than the one used in the Masoretic Pentateuch, used by Jews. The Samaritan text is written with the Samaritan alphabet, derived from the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet used by the Israelite community prior to the Babylonian captivity. During the exile in Babylon, Jews adopted the Ashuri script, based on the …

The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language.The repertoire of glyphs is based on the Greek alphabet augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic and is the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language.There are several Coptic alphabets, as the Coptic writing system may vary greatly among the various dialects and subdialects of the …

The Burmese alphabet (Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ mranma akkha.ra, pronounced [mjəmà ʔɛʔkʰəjà]) is an abugida used for writing Burmese.It is ultimately adapted from a Brahmic script, either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India.The Burmese alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit.In recent decades, other, related alphabets, such ...

The Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet (Mongolian: Монгол Кирилл үсэг, Mongol Kirill üseg or Кирилл цагаан толгой, Kirill tsagaan tolgoi) is the writing system used for the standard dialect of the Mongolian language in the modern state of Mongolia.It has a largely phonemic orthography, meaning that there is a fair degree of consistency in the representation of ...

The history of the Greek alphabet starts with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms in the 9th–8th centuries BC during early Archaic Greece and continues to the present day. The Greek alphabet was developed during the Iron Age centuries after the loss of Linear B, the syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek until the Late Bronze Age collapse and …

Tifinagh (Tuareg Berber language: ⵜⴼⵏⵗ or ⵜⴼⵉⵏⵗ, Berber pronunciation: ) is a script used to write the Berber languages.Tifinagh is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet. The traditional Tifinagh, sometimes called Tuareg Tifinagh, is still favored by the Tuareg Berbers of the Sahara desert in southern Algeria, northeastern Mali, northern Niger and northern Burkina ...

Ashkenazi Hebrew (Hebrew: הגייה אשכנזית, romanized: Hagiyya Ashkenazit, Yiddish: אַשכּנזישע הבֿרה, romanized: Ashkenazishe Havara) is the pronunciation system for Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew favored for Jewish liturgical use and Torah study by Ashkenazi Jewish practice.

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 ...

The Samaritan alphabet, on the other hand, remains a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew script. [7] The Hebrew alphabet was later adapted in order to write down the languages of the Jewish diaspora ( Karaim , Judæo-Arabic , Ladino , Yiddish , etc.), and was retained all the while in relatively unadapted form throughout the diaspora for ...

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 ...