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  1. Script typeAbjad
    Time period2nd–1st century BCE to present
    History

    The Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before around 1000 BCE. An example of related early Semitic inscriptions from the area include the tenth-century Gezer calendar over which scholars are divided … See more

    Description

    In the traditional form, the Hebrew alphabet is an abjad consisting only of consonants, written from right to left. It has 22 letters, five of which use different forms at the end of a word.
    In the tradit… See more

    Pronunciation

    The descriptions that follow are based on the pronunciation of modern standard Israeli Hebrew.
    By analogy with the other dotted/dotless pairs, dotless tav, ת‎, would be expected to be pronoun… See more

    Numeric values of letters

    Following the adoption of Greek Hellenistic alphabetic numeration practice, Hebrew letters started being used to denote numbers in the late 2nd century BC, and performed this arithmetic function for about a thousan… See more

     
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  1. The original, old Hebrew script, known as the paleo-Hebrew alphabet, has been largely preserved in a variant form as the Samaritan alphabet. The present "Jewish script" or "square script", on the contrary, is a stylized form of the Aramaic alphabet and was technically known by Jewish sages as Ashurit (lit.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet
    In its original form, the Hebrew alphabet consisted of pictures that were easy for people to understand – the alphabet includes pictures of an arm (yod), an eye (ayin), a mouth (peh), a shepherd’s staff (lamed), and other items that are as relatable to us today as they were to the men and women who lived before the flood.

    The 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 earliest epigraphic records of the Hebrew language.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hebrew_alph…
    The other script, ketav Ashurit (“Assyrian script”), is the one we know today as the Hebrew alphabet.
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  2. History of the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

    The Hebrew alphabet is a script that was derived from the Aramaic alphabet during the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods (c. 500 BCE – 50 CE). It replaced the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet which was used in the earliest epigraphic …

     
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