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	Learn Hebrew - WannaLearn.com
		Introduction to Biblical Hebrew - an illustrated introductory guide to Biblical Hebrew, covering the Hebrew alphabet, variations in characters(Paleo Hebrew, Block characters, and Modern handwritten Hebrew), how to read Hebrew and more
		Akhlah: The Jewish Children's Learning Network - online Hebrew lessons for kids, covering the Hebrew alphabet, days in Hebrew, Hebrew months, vowels, and phrases, plus other instructional information on the Jewish faith, Jewish culture, Israel and more
		Learn Hebrew Today : Alef-Bet for Adults - An easy to understand and follow instructional book on the Hebrew language, perfect for any beginner, especially those who attend synagogue services and would like to learn to read and understand the prayer book.
	www.wannalearn.com /Academic_Subjects/World_Languages/Hebrew

	Samaritan Hebrew language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is written in the Samaritan alphabet, a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (itself a variation on the Phoenician alphabet), whereas all other varieties of Hebrew are written in the later Hebrew alphabet, a variation on the Aramaic alphabet.
		The Samaritan pronunciation of Hebrew differs in several respects from most others.
		Segolates behave more or less as in other Hebrew varieties: beţen "stomach" > báţnek "your stomach", kesef "silver" > kesfánu "our silver", dérek > dirkakimma "your (m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samaritan_Hebrew (461 words)

	The Alphabet
		The original Hebrew alphabet consisted only of consonants (see also Semitic Languages); vowel signs and pronunciation currently accepted for biblical Hebrew were created by scholars known as Masoretes after the 5th century CE.
		" The main characterisitics of the North Semitic alphabet are that it consisted of twenty-two letters, which correspond to the twenty-two letters of its descendant, the modern Hebrew Alphabet.
		It is proved not only by the script and its relation to Cuneiform and South Semitic, but also by virtue of Biblical Hebrew, and early inscriptions, that use very rigid grammatical constructs, representative of a primitive language.
	myweb.absa.co.za /dannyza/html/religion/biblicalarch/alphabet.html (461 words)

	Samaritan alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Samaritan alphabet is a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew variety of the Phoenician alphabet, the more commonly known Hebrew alphabet having been adapted from the Aramaic alphabet under the Persian Empire.
		The Tetragrammaton was often still written in this script for some time after the current Hebrew alphabet was adopted among the Jews.
		It is used by them for writings in their dialect of Hebrew and also for commentaries and translations in Samaritan Aramaic and even Arabic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samaritan_alphabet (156 words)

	Phoenician_alphabet
		The Samaritan alphabet, used by the Samaritans, is a version of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
		Modern alphabets thought to have descended from the Phoenician include Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin (via the Old Italic alphabet), and Cyrillic.
		Like Proto-Canaanite, Arabic and Hebrew, Phoenician is a consonantal alphabet (an abjad), and contains no symbols for vowel sounds, which had to be deduced from context.
	language.school-explorer.com /info/Phoenician_alphabet (566 words)

	Phoenician Alphabet Essay @ HigherPower.org (Higher Power)
		The Samaritan alphabet, used by the Samaritans, is a version of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
		It later split off into a number of related alphabets, including the modern Hebrew alphabet, the Syriac alphabet, and the Nabatean alphabet, a highly cursive form that was the origin of the Arabic alphabet.
		Like Proto-Canaanite, Arabic and Proto-Hebrew, Phoenician is a consonantal alphabet (an abjad), and contains no symbols for vowel sounds, which had to be deduced from context.
	higherpower.org /encyclopedia/Phoenician_alphabet (824 words)

	Abjad writing systems
		Formerly, Hebrew had been written using an alphabet closer in form to that of Phoenician alphabet (the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet).
		The Hebrew alphabet and Nabataean alphabet alphabets are little changed in style from the Aramaic alphabet.
		The use of Aramaic as a lingua franca throughout the Middle East from the 8th century BC led to the gradual adoption of the Aramaic alphabet for writing Hebrew language.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Abjad-writing-systems (259 words)

	New Page 4
		No matter how you slice it, our current square Hebrew Alphabet has changed (for whatever reasons and orders) from the Paleo Hebrew version that originally came from pictorial Hebrew (Proto Canaanite/Sinaic) pictured below --according to many secular and religious (Jewish) scholars.
		There was no evidence of Pictorial Hebrew (ie: the first so-called Proto-Canaanite or Proto Sinaic Alphabet scripts) amongst the Jews of Yemen (that I am aware of).
		Either way, Alphabet means a limited number of letters (twenty to thirty) listed in a fixed order.
	www.chayas.com /hebrewpictorial.htm (259 words)

	Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Samaritan alphabet, used by the Samaritans, is a version of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
		It later split off into a number of related alphabets, including the modern Hebrew alphabet, the Syriac alphabet, and the Nabatean alphabet, a highly cursive form that was the origin of the Arabic alphabet.
		Like Proto-Canaanite, Arabic and Hebrew, Phoenician is a consonantal alphabet (an abjad), and contains no symbols for vowel sounds, which had to be deduced from context.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoenician_alphabet (259 words)

	Phoenician alphabet
		The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, used to write early Hebrew, is nearly identical to the Phoenician one.
		Modern alphabets thought to have descended from the Phoenician include Hebrew,
		The Greek alphabet is thought to have developed either directly from the Phoenician alphabet, or to share a common parent in Proto-Canaanite.
	www.infoslurp.com /information/Phoenician_alphabet (259 words)

	Phoenician alphabet
		The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, used to write early Hebrew, is nearly identical to the Phoenician one.
		The Greek alphabet is thought to have developed either directly from the Phoenician alphabet, or to share a common parent in Proto-Canaanite.
		Many historians believe that the Brahmi script and the subsequent Indic alphabets are derived from this script as well, which would make it the ancestor of almost all major writing systems in use today, with the exception of the
	www.infoslurp.com /information/Phoenician_alphabet (259 words)

	Encyclopedia: Syriac alphabet
		The Samaritan alphabet is a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew variety of the Phoenician alphabet, the more commonly known Hebrew alphabet having been adapted from the Aramaic alphabet under the Persian Empire.
		BC An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters â€” basic written symbols â€” each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
		The Runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes, formerly used to write Germanic languages, mainly in Scandinavia, and the British Isles.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Syriac-alphabet (2518 words)

	Walter's Hebrew Page
		The Blessing on the Sons of Israel - a breakdown of the Blessing in paleo Hebrew
		The Blessing on Abraham - a breakdown of Abram's blessing in paleo Hebrew
		- The Meru Project is based on 25 years of research by Stan Tenen, an Orthodox Jew, into the origin and nature of the Hebrew alphabet, and the mathematical structure underlying the sequence of letters of the [Talmudic?] Hebrew text of Genesis.
	home.earthlink.net /~walterk12/HIB (263 words)

	FATHOM: Sidebars
		is especially notable as evidence of the medieval use, for kabbalistic incantation, of the "angelic script," derived from the Paleo-Hebrew (Samaritan) alphabet.
		The main body of the text is written in Byzantine Hebrew script, which "may have been influenced by Greek script," but this MS.
	www.fathom.com /course/72810016/2_06.htm (74 words)

	Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, used to write early Hebrew, is nearly identical to the Phoenician one.
		The Greek alphabet is thought to have developed either directly from the Phoenician alphabet, or to share a common parent in Proto-Canaanite.
		Many historians believe that the Brahmi script and the subsequent Indic alphabets are derived from this script as well, which would make it the ancestor of almost all major writing systems in use today, with the exception of the
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoenician_alphabet (74 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet: Understanding the Ancient Hebrew Language of the Bible Based on Ancient Hebrew Culture and Thought
		The Hebrew Bible, called the "Tenach" by Jews and "Old Testament" by Christians, was originally written in the Hebrew language using an ancient pictographic, or paleo-Hebrew, script.
		An in depth history of the Ancient Hebrew pictographic alphabet, the relationship between the pictographic letters and word definitions and extensive script charts.
		Origins of the Hebrews, the Hebrew language and the alphabet.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1589395344 (74 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Index I
		SEE initial teaching alphabet Itafi (D) SEE Timucua Italian Indo-Hittite Italic Indo-Hittite Itelmen Paleo-Asiatic Itene Ge-Pano-Carib Itivimmiut Inuit-Aleut Itkan Paleo-Asiatic Itonama Macro-Chibchan Itza Macro-Penutian Ixil Macro-Penutian Ivrit SEE Hebrew
		Return to List of Alphabetic Letters to Search Index
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/xix.htm (83 words)

	Samaritan Hebrew language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is written in the Samaritan alphabet, a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (itself a variation on the Phoenician alphabet), whereas all other varieties of Hebrew are written in the later Hebrew alphabet, a variation on the Aramaic alphabet.
		The Samaritan Hebrew language is a descendant of Biblical Hebrew as pronounced and written by the Samaritans.
		The Samaritan pronunciation of Hebrew differs in several respects from most others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samaritan_Hebrew (461 words)

	Read about Phoenician alphabet at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Phoenician alphabet and learn about Phoenician alphabet here!
		Samaritans, is a version of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
		The Greek alphabet is thought to have developed either directly from the Phoenician alphabet, or to share a common parent in Proto-Canaanite.
		Indic alphabets are derived from this script as well, which would make it the ancestor of almost all major writing systems in use today, with the exception of the
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Phoenician_alphabet (461 words)

	Jewish languages - JewtunesWiki
		The earliest surviving Hebrew inscription, the Gezer Calendar, dates from the 10th century BCE; it was written in the so-called Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, which continued to be used through the time of Solomon's Temple until changed to the new "Assyrian lettering" ( ktav ashurit) by Ezra the Scribe following the Babylonian Exile.
		Hebrew itself remained in vigorous use for relgious and official uses such as for all religious events, Responsa, and in writing Torah scrolls, marriage contracts and literary purposes.
		In addition to the native Jewish language of Hebrew, Jewish communities have frequently adopted the language of the surrounding community, but due to their segregation it often developed and diverged to form a dialect or a separate language.
	wiki.jewtunes.net /index.php?title=Jewish_languages (461 words)

	Alphabet
		The Samaritan Hebrew alphabet, as it is called by scholars, is a slight development of the paleoHebrew, the ancient Hebrew script.
		On the left side of the tablet there are Persian, Aramaic, Jewish Hebrew scripts alongside the Paleo-Hebrew and on the right side of the tablet is the pronunciation of the ancient Hebrew letters.
		There they learn the script and the reading of the ancient Samaritan Hebrew as well as their special dialect of the Aramaic taught by Samaritan teachers in order to maintain the tradition from generation to generation.
	www.mystae.com /reflections/messiah/scripts/alphabet.html (276 words)

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		The earliest surviving Hebrew inscription, the Gezer Calendar, dates from the 10th century BCE; it was written in the so-called Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, which continued to be used through the time of Solomon's Temple until changed to the new "Assyrian lettering" (ktav ashurit) by Ezra the Scribe following the Babylonian Exile.
		Hebrew itself remained in vigorous use for religious and official uses such as for all religious events, Responsa, for writing Torah scrolls, and along with Aramaic, retained a position of importance for the writing of marriage contracts and other literary purposes.
		Hebrew is the language of daily life in Israel, though a substantial proportion of the country's citizens are immigrants who speak it as their second language.
	www.toolhost.com /Jewish_languages.html (276 words)

	Alphabet
		The Samaritan Hebrew alphabet, as it is called by scholars, is a slight development of the paleoHebrew, the ancient Hebrew script.
		On the left side of the tablet there are Persian, Aramaic, Jewish Hebrew scripts alongside the Paleo-Hebrew and on the right side of the tablet is the pronunciation of the ancient Hebrew letters.
		There they learn the script and the reading of the ancient Samaritan Hebrew as well as their special dialect of the Aramaic taught by Samaritan teachers in order to maintain the tradition from generation to generation.
	www.mystae.com /reflections/messiah/scripts/alphabet.html (276 words)

	JDC-Concrete: A definition of Terms
		All alphabets are believed to derive from a common origin in Mesopotamia around 1500 BC (Ougartic, Proto-sinaitic, Phoenecian, Paleo-Hebrew, Aramaean).
		ideogramatic and alphabetic system used in graffiti, particularly used by local groups of youths to delineate territory.
		the initial sound of an ideogram in a syllable or word is preserved to denote the letter in an alphabet.
	jdc-concrete.com /TERMS.HTM (276 words)

	Hebrew script : MyFonts
		The Hebrew language was initially written in an alphabet very similar to Phoenician — Paleo-Hebrew or ktav ivri kadum.
		A modern Hebrew reader can without much trouble decipher and read these ancient manuscripts which were preserved in the dry climate of the Qumran caves of the Judean desert.
		The Hebrew letter as we know it has changed little in the last two thousand years.
	www.myfonts.com:8080 /Article6823.html (205 words)

	Samaritan alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Samaritan alphabet is a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew variety of the Phoenician alphabet, the more commonly known Hebrew alphabet having been adapted from the Aramaic alphabet under the Persian Empire.
		The Tetragrammaton was often still written in this script for some time after the current Hebrew alphabet was adopted among the Jews.
		It is used by them for writings in their dialect of Hebrew and also for commentaries and translations in Samaritan Aramaic and even Arabic.
	www.mywikipedia.us /Samaritan_alphabet (812 words)

	Encyclopedia: Brahmi
		The Samaritan alphabet is a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew variety of the Phoenician alphabet, the more commonly known Hebrew alphabet having been adapted from the Aramaic alphabet under the Persian Empire.
		BrÄhmÄ« is generally believed to be derived from a Semitic script such as the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, as was clearly the case for the contempory Kharosthi alphabet that arose in a part of northwest Indian under the control of the Achaemenid Empire.
		Tablet inscribed with the Glagolitic alphabet The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavonic alphabet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brahmi (1954 words)

	ipedia.com: Samaritan alphabet Article
		The Samaritan alphabet is a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew variety of the Phoenician alphabet, the more commonly known Hebrew alphabet having been adapted from the Aramaic alphabet under the Pe...
		The Samaritan alphabet is a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew variety of the Phoenician alphabet, the more commonly known Hebrew alphabet having been adapted from the Aramaic alphabet under the Persian Empire.
		The Tetragrammaton was often still written in this script for some time after the current Hebrew alphabet was adopted among the Jews.
	www.ipedia.com /samaritan_alphabet.html (1954 words)

	Scripture Studies: Follow The Pattern Exactly!
		Remarkably, of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, Yahweh preserved His Name with three of the four letters that in the Hebrew ARE used as vowels as well as consonants: yothe (y), hay (h), and waw (w).
		In his book, Discovery of Ancient America, Deal also writes about paleo-Hebrew Tetragrammaton discovered in New Mexico and Tennessee.
		I is a descendant of the ancient Phoenician and Hebrew letter yud and the Greek letter iota" (Vol.
	www.aarons-advocates.org /acl-letter-J-pt2.html (17050 words)

	Encyclopedia: Samaritan alphabet
		The Samaritan alphabet is a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew variety of the Phoenician alphabet, the more commonly known Hebrew alphabet having been adapted from the Aramaic alphabet under the Persian Empire.
		Tetragrammaton was often still written in this script for some time after the current Hebrew alphabet was adopted among the Jews.
		The Tetragrammaton was often still written in this script for some time after the current Hebrew alphabet was adopted among the Jews.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Samaritan-alphabet (321 words)

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