Writing and Printing

History of the Hebrew alphabet

The Hebrew alphabet is a script that was derived from the Aramaic alphabet during the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods (c. 500 BCE – 50 CE). It replaced the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet which was used in the earliest epigraphic records of the Hebrew language.

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• ▸Greenlandic language
• ▸Damasonium
• ▸Ganske Publishing Group

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