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	Aramaic alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Aramaic was for a long time (between the later Assyrian empire and the Abbasid Caliphate) a lingua franca in the Middle East; its alphabet, though itself derived from the Phoenician alphabet, therefore superseded the Old Hebrew alphabet that had been independently descended from the Phoenician alphabet.
		It is no longer the case that Aramaic has a single alphabet; rather, just as Aramaic has diversified into a family of closely related languages, the Aramaic alphabet has likewise become a family of closely related alphabets, chief among them Syriac alphabet, Mandaic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Palmyrenean alphabet, Nabataean alphabet.
		However, before splitting up, the Aramaic alphabet went through two principal stages: an early period, during which it closely resembled its ancestor the Phoenician alphabet, and the later period known as Imperial Aramaic, very closely resembling its descendant the modern Hebrew alphabet.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/aramaic_alphabet (280 words)

	AUB Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Of particular note is funerary material from a multiple burial tomb including a Tell el Yehudiyeh ware goblet with an incised decoration of birds and ducks attributed to the Hyksos period (17th c.- B.C.).
		This section houses sculptured Palmyrenean busts dating from the 1st c.
		This collection is composed of figurines representing various deities, amulets, inscriptions, a mummified hand and two mummified hawks.
	ddc.aub.edu.lb /projects/museum/special.html (313 words)

	Aramaic - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A highly modified form of the Aramaic alphabet, the Mandaic alphabet, is used by the Mandaeans.
		In addition to these writing systems, certain derivatives of the Aramaic alphabet were used in ancient times by particular groups: Nabataean in Petra, for instance, or Palmyrenean in Palmyra.
		In modern times, Turoyo (see below) has sometimes been written in an adapted Latin alphabet.
	encyclopedia.maksiu.info /wiki/Aramaic (5390 words)

	Aramaic language - Gurupedia
		Western - this group is extinct as a spoken language and included
		Nabataean (extinct, spoken in parts of Arabia), Palmyrenean (extinct, spoken in Palmyra and adjoining regions), and Palestinian-Christian and Judeo-Aramean.
		A Western Aramaic dialect was the spoken language in Roman Judea in Jesus's time, as quotes given in the Greek Gospels show[2].
	www.gurupedia.com /a/ar/aramaic_language.htm (530 words)

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