Aramaic alphabet

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• Aramaic alphabet — Bilingual Greek and Aramaic inscription by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka the Great at Kandahar, 3rd century BC …   Wikipedia

• Aramaic alphabet —       major writing system in the Middle East in the latter half of the 1st millennium BC. Derived from the North Semitic script, the Aramaic alphabet was developed in the 10th and 9th centuries BC and came into prominence after the conquest of… …   Universalium

• Aramaic alphabet — noun Date: 1890 1. an extinct North Semitic alphabet dating from the ninth century B.C. which was for several centuries the commercial alphabet of southwest Asia and the parent of other alphabets (as Syriac and Arabic) 2. the square Hebrew… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• aramaic alphabet — noun Usage: usually capitalized 1st A 1. : an extinct North Semitic alphabet dating from the 9th century B.C. which was for several centuries the commercial alphabet of southwest Asia and was the parent of the Syriac, Arabic, and numerous other… …   Useful english dictionary

• Aramaic alphabet — noun see hebrew alphabet …   Useful english dictionary

• ARAMAIC — ARAMAIC, an ancient northwestern semitic language spoken (to some extent) to this day. The entry is arranged according to the following outline: ancient aramaic and official aramaic sources syria and its neighboring countries iraq and iran egypt… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Aramaic language — Not to be confused with the Amharic language. For the people, see Aramaeans. Aramaic Arāmît Pronunciation [arɑmiθ], [arɑmit], [ɑrɑmɑjɑ], [ɔrɔmɔjɔ] Spoken in Ir …   Wikipedia

• alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… …   Universalium

• Aramaic of Jesus — Most scholars believe that historical Jesus primarily spoke Aramaic, [cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary|title=Aramaic|quote=It is generally agreed that Aramaic was the common language of Palestine in the first century A …   Wikipedia

• Alphabet — [ William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia .] An alphabet is a standardized set of letters mdash basic written symbolsmdash each of which roughly represents a phoneme, a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in… …   Wikipedia

• Alphabet Paléo-hébraïque — Pièces de monnaie de la révolte de Bar Kokhba portant des légendes en paléo hébraïque L alphabet paléo hébraïque (hébreu  …   Wikipédia en Français