Aramaic was at a certain time a lingua franca in the Middle East, and therefore, it superseded the Old Hebrew alphabet that was more closely related to the [Phoenician alphabet]
?. This later, Aramaic-based alphabet is the ancestor of the Modern Hebrew alphabet. The Aramaic alphabet is probably also the ancestor of the [Indic alphabets]
? and is without reasonable doubt the source of the
Old Turkic alphabet and the
Arabic alphabet.
Alphabet, Aramaic language
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