Aramaic Alphabet

The Aramaic alphabet is an ancient script that originated around the 10th century BCE in the Near East. It is a consonant-based alphabet used to write the Aramaic language, which became widely spoken and influential across the Persian Empire and beyond. Consisting of 22 consonant letters, it lacks vowels in its original form but influenced many other scripts, including Hebrew and Arabic. The Aramaic alphabet has had a profound impact on the development of writing systems in the region and is historically significant for religious texts, inscriptions, and translations across diverse cultures.