![]() ![]() Readers are expected to vocalise texts themselves. Like Arabic, Hebrew is written and read from right to left. There is no differentiation between uppercase and lowercase letters. The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 consonants. ![]() The illustration shows a (modern) Hebrew square script (the text is, of course, written from right to left) From this point in time, Hebrew square script, based on Aramaic script, began to be used. The following list shows the differences in the form of selected letters:īy the second century AD, Jewish dignitaries began to consider palaeo-Hebrew script inappropriate for religious texts. Hebrew texts were originally written using palaeo-Hebrew characters that, like Greek script, were derived from the Phoenician alphabet.
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