Aramaic_alphabet
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The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken by ancient Aramean pre-Christian peoples throughout the Fertile Crescent. It was also adopted by other peoples as their own alphabet when empires and their subjects underwent linguistic Aramaization during a language shift for governing purposes — a precursor to Arabization centuries later — including among the Assyrians a
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| Aramaic alphabet | |
|---|---|
 Aramaic inscription from Tayma, containing a dedicatory inscription to the god Salm | |
| Script type | |
Period | 800 BC to AD 600 |
| Direction | Right-to-left |
| Languages | Aramaic (Syriac and Mandaic), Hebrew, Edomite |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs
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Child systems | |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Armi (124), Imperial Aramaic |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Imperial Aramaic |
| U+10840–U+1085F | |
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