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4 unusual facts about Assyrian script


Assyrian script

Eastern Syriac alphabet (sometimes called the Assyrian alphabet), a variant of the Syriac alphabet

Ashuri alphabet (sometimes called the Assyrian alphabet), an old traditional calligraphic form of the Hebrew alphabet

Hebrew alphabet

The original old Hebrew script is known as the paleo-Hebrew script (which has been largely preserved, in an altered form, in the Samaritan script), while the present "square" form of the Hebrew alphabet is a stylized form of the Assyrian script.

Following the exile of the Kingdom of Judah in the 6th century BCE, in the Babylonian exile, Jews adopted the Assyrian script, which was another offshoot of the same family of scripts, evolved into the Jewish, or "square" script, that is still in use today and known as the "Hebrew alphabet".



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