Hebrew language, alphabet and pronunciation - Omniglot
WEBThe modern Hebrew alphabet was developed from an alphabet known as Proto-Hebrew/Early Aramaic. The Hebrew alphabet is also known as the Hebrew Square Script, the square script, the block script, the Jewish script or Ktav Ashuri (כְּתָב אַשּׁוּרִי - Assyrian script). Notable features. Type of writing system: abjad / consonant ...
Useful Hebrew phrases - Omniglot
WEBA collection of useful phrases in Hebrew (עברית), a Semitic language spoken mainly in Hebrew. Key to abbreviations: m = said by men, f = said by women, >m = said to men, >f = said to women. See these phrases in any combination of …
Aramaic language and alphabet - Omniglot
WEBToday Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects and the Aramaic language of the Talmud are written in the Hebrew alphabet, while the Syriac alphabet is used to write Syriac and Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects, and the Mandaic alphabet is used for Mandaic.
Numbers in Hebrew - Omniglot
WEBHebrew numbers. How to count in Hebrew (עברית), a Semitic language spoken mainly in Israel. Hebrew letters are used to a limited extent to represent numbers, mainly on calendars. For other uses Western (Arabic) numerals (1, 2, 3, etc) are used.
Omniglot - the encyclopedia of writing systems and languages
WEBA guide to writing systems and languages, with useful phrases, tips on learning languages, multilingual texts, and much more.
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet - Omniglot
WEBThe Paleo-Hebrew alphabet was used between about 1,000 BC and 135 AD to write Ancient Hebrew in the Biblical regions of Israel and Judah. It developed from the Proto-Canaanite script, which was used in Canaan (the Levant) during the Late Bronze Age.
Yiddish alphabet, pronunciation and language - Omniglot
WEBWriting system: Hebrew alphabet, Latin alphabet; Status: official language in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the southeast of the Russian Federation. Recognised minority language in: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
Phoenician alphabet and language - Omniglot
WEBPhoenician, a Northern Semitic language which originated in about the 11th century BC in what is now Lebannon, Syria and Israel, an area then known as Pūt in Phoenician and Ancient Egyptian, Canaan in Biblical Hebrew, Old Arabic and Aramaic, and Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē) / Phoenicia in Greek and Latin.
Ladino (djudeoespanyol) language - Omniglot
WEBLadino is a language derived from medieval Spanish, with influences from such languages as Aragonese, Astur-Leonese, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, and Mozarabic. Ladino also has vocabulary from Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic, French, Italian, Greek, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian.
Syriac language and alphabet - Omniglot
WEBThe Syriac alphabet developed from the Aramaic alphabet and was used mainly to write the Syriac language from about the 2nd century BC. There are a number of different forms of the Syriac alphabet: Esṭrangelā (ܐܣܛܪܢܓܠܐ), Serṭā (ܣܪܛܐ) and Madnḥāyā (ܡܕܢܚܝܐ).