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The Hebrew alphabet is a set of 22 letters used for writing the Hebrew language. It is has also been used in mildly adapted forms for writing several languages of the Jewish diaspora, most famously Yiddish, Ladino, and Judaeo-Arabic (for a full and detailed list, see Jewish languages).

Hebrew speakers call their alphabet the ʾālep̄-bêṯ [alef-beit] (א ʾālep̄ and ב bêṯ are the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet). The number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet, their order, their names, and their phonetic values are virtually identical to those of the Aramaic alphabet, as both Hebrews and Arameans borrowed the Phoenician alphabet for their uses during the end of the 2nd millennium BC.

The modern script used for writing Hebrew (usually called the Jewish script by scholars, and also traditionally known as the square script, or the Assyrian script), evolved during the 3rd century BC from the Aramaic script, which was used by JewsThe word Jew is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to either a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or a member of the Jewish culture or ethnicity. This article discusses the term as describing an ethnic group; for a for writing Hebrew since the 6th century BC7th century BC 6th century BC 5th century BC other centuries) ( 600s BC 590s BC 580s BC 570s BC 560s BC 550s BC 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC other decades) ( 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC 1st millennium AD) Events Cyrus the Great conquere. Prior to that, Hebrew was written using the old Hebrew script, which evolved during the 9th century BC10th century BC 9th century BC 8th century BC other centuries) ( 900s BC 890s BC 880s BC 870s BC 860s BC 850s BC 840s BC 830s BC 820s BC 810s BC 800s BC other decades) ( 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC 1st millennium AD) Events Kingdom of Kush ( 900 B from the PhoenicianPhoenician can mean: The Phoenician ancient civilization The Phoenician alphabet The Phoenician languages. script; the SamaritansFor the British telephone helpline, see Samaritans . Like the Jews, the Samaritans are both a religious and an ethnic group. Ethnically, they are descended from the inhabitants of Samaria from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the beginning of t still write Hebrew in a variant of this script for religious works (see Samaritan alphabetThe Samaritan alphabet is a direct descendant of the paleo-Hebrew variety of the Phoenician alphabet, the more commonly known Hebrew alphabet having been adapted from the Aramaic alphabet under the Persian Empire. Large parts of the Old Testament were ori.)

1 The ʾālep̄-bêṯ

The Hebrew ʾālep̄-bêṯ consists of the following letters (final forms below their normal counterparts):

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