Ancient Near Eastern Alphabets
There are various ways to write Aramaic, just as other languages often have more than one script. The Aramaic language of the ancient Assyrians derives from the Phoenician, whose alphabet was as follows:
Ancient Aramaic was written like this:
Compare that with the script of other ancient languages:
Biblical scholars today generally use the Hebrew alphabet and characters as the same alphabet to write in Aramaic.
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