Aramaic script
The Aramaic script was originally adapted from the Phoenician alphabet about the 8th century BC.[1] It was first used to write the Aramaic language.[1] It was also used to write several other languages and alphabets including the Hebrew square script.[2] It was also developed into the Nabataean, Syriac and Mongolian writing systems, among others.[1] The modern Arabic script is also descended from the Aramaic alphabet.[2]
The Aramaic script contains 22 characters used mainly to indicate consonants.[3] However, some symbols can be used to indicate long vowels.[3] By comparison, the later Hebrew and Arabic scripts use only consonants. Hebrew uses 22; Arabic 28.[2]
Aramaic Script Media
The Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, a Greek and Aramaic inscription by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka at Kandahar, Afghanistan, 3rd century BC
Aramaic inscription of Taxila, Pakistan probably by the emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE
Incantation bowl with Aramaic script, from Babylon, Iraq, 4th to 7th century AD, on display in the Pergamon Museum
Maaloula square letter
Ox head in so-called "proto-semitic alphabet"[sic] (which is not actually "Proto-Semitic", but rather one particular speculation as to the influence of the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system on the early Sinaitic alphabet...
Maaloula square letter
Proto-semitic Beth (house), a theological invention.
Maaloula square letter
- Proto-semitic Gimel, a theological invention.
Maaloula square letter
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Aramaic (ܐܪܡܝܐ, ארמית, Arāmît)Omniglot. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Book: A Global History, eds. Michael F Suarez; H R Woudhuysen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 13
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Languages from the World of the Bible, ed. Holger Gzella (Berlin; Boston: Walter de De Gruyter, Inc., 2011), p. 131
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