Abjad writing systems

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Hebrew alphabet

This article is mainly about Hebrew letters. For Hebrew diacritical marks, see niqqud (for the vowel points) and cantillation. The Hebrew alphabet is a set of 22 letters used for writing the Hebrew language. It is has also been used in mildly adapted forms for writing several languages of the Jewish diaspora, most famously Yiddish, Ladino, and Judaeo-Arabic (for a full and detailed list, see Jewish languages)...

Phoenician alphabet

The Phoenician alphabet dates from around 1000 BC and is a direct descendant of the Proto-Sinatic alphabet. It was used by the Phoenicians to write Phoenician languages, a Northern Semitic languages language. Modern alphabets thought to have descended from the Phoenician include Hebrew alphabet, Arabic alphabet, Greek alphabet, and Latin alphabet (the last via the Old Italic alphabet)...

Syriac alphabet

The Syriac alphabet is used for writing the Syriac language. It is clearly related to other alphabets used to write Semitic languages...

Ugaritic alphabet

Template:SpecialChars range The Ugaritic alphabet is a Cuneiform (script) consonant alphabet (abjad), used from around 1300 BC for the Ugaritic language, an extinct Canaanite language discovered in Ugarit. It has 30 distinct letters. Other languages (particularly Hurrian language) were occasionally written in it in the Ugarit area, although not elsewhere. Clay tablets written in Ugaritic are the earliest known evidence of th semitic ordering of letters that eventually gave the order of letters in the Greek alphabet and Latin alphabet alphabets...

Arabic alphabet

The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing the Arabic language, which is the language of the Quran, the holy book of Islam. The alphabets influence spread with that of Islam and it has been, and still is, used to write many other languages from families unrelated to the Semitic languages, such as Persian language and Urdu language. (See fuller list below.) In order to accommodate the phonetics of other languages, the alphabet has been adapted by the addition of letters and other symbols. The alphabet presents itself in different styles..

Aramaic alphabet

Aramaic was for a long time (between the later Assyrian empire and the Abbasid Caliphate) a lingua franca in the Middle East, its alphabet, though itself derived from the Phoenician alphabet, therefore superseded the Old Hebrew alphabet that had been independently descended from the Phoenician alphabet. It is no longer the case that Aramaic has a single alphabet, rather, just as Aramaic language has diversified into a family of closely related languages, the Aramaic alphabet has likewise become a family of closely related alphabets, chief among..