Aramaic alphabet (historically)

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The Aramaic alphabet is an ancient consonantal script that originated in the Near East and became a major writing system of the Semitic world, serving as the ancestor of many later Middle Eastern and Central Asian alphabets.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Aramaic alphabet 23
Aramaic script 13
Syriac alphabet 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Semitic script
abjad
writing system
ancestorOf Arabic alphabet (indirectly via Nabataean)
Avestan alphabet
linked to: Avestan script

Hebrew alphabet
Mandaic alphabet
Manichaean script
Mongolian script
Nabataean alphabet
Old Turkic script
Old Uyghur alphabet
Pahlavi scripts
Palmyrene alphabet
Sogdian alphabet
Syriac alphabet
linked to: East Syriac script
derivedFrom Phoenician alphabet
directionality right-to-left
historicalRole lingua franca script of the Near East
historicalStatus extinct as primary script
influenced Central Asian writing systems
Middle Eastern writing systems
numberOfLetters 22
originPlace Ancient Near East
originRegion Levant
linked to: Levant region
relatedTo Hebrew alphabet
Phoenician alphabet
Syriac alphabet
represents consonants
scriptCategory abjad
scriptFamily Northwest Semitic scripts
linked to: Northwest Semitic
standardizedAs Imperial Aramaic script
linked to: Imperial Aramaic
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
unicodeScriptName Imperial_Aramaic
linked to: Imperial Aramaic
usedBy Achaemenid administration
linked to: Achaemenid Empire

Arameans
usedForLanguage Aramaic language
linked to: Aramaic

Imperial Aramaic
various Northwest Semitic languages
vowelNotation matres lectionis for some vowels
primarily absent
writingDirection right-to-left
writingMedium clay tablets
papyrus
parchment
stone inscriptions
writingSystemType consonantal script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (39)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Central Semitic languages writingSystemUsed Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Phoenician alphabet ancestorOf Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Phoenician alphabet ancestorOf Syriac alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Phoenician civilization influenced Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Syriac writingSystem Syriac alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Hebrew alphabet derivedFrom Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Gematria appliesTo Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Aramaic hasWritingSystem Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Northwest Semitic writingSystem Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Edomite writingSystem Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Proto-Canaanite script ancestorOf Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Nabataean alphabet follows Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Nabataean alphabet derivedFrom Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Arabic alphabet ultimatelyDerivedFrom Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Phoenician language ancestorOf Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
East Syriac script parentSystem Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Estrangela script scriptFamily Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Parthian Empire writingSystem Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Jewish printing usesScript Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Seleucid Empire usedScript Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Avestan script influencedBy Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Kharoṣṭhī script derivedFrom Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Middle Persian primaryScriptOrigin Aramaic script
subject linked to: Middle Persian language
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Pahlavi script derivedFrom Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Brahmi influencedBy Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Arameans writingSystem Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Old Uyghur alphabet scriptLineage Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Palmyrene alphabet subclassOf Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Palmyrene alphabet derivedFrom Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Mandaic alphabet scriptFamily Aramaic script
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Mandaic alphabet developedFrom Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Syriac alphabet scriptFamily Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Palestinian Aramaic dialects writingSystem Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Canaanite languages writingSystem Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Palmyrene Aramaic derivedFrom Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Proto-Canaanite language influenced Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Persian court usedWritingSystem Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Achaemenid satrapy of Babylonia writingSystem Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin influenced Aramaic alphabet
linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)