Hebrew

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet

Data

ISO 15924 Hebr 125
Type Abjad
Family Semitic
Direction RTL
Diacritics No
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 54
Earliest Location Judah
Earliest Date 80 BCE
Latest Date 150 CE
Ancestry
    • Hebrew

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Goerwitz, Richard 1996 The World's Writing Systems, The Jewish Scripts, 487-491 Oxford University Press
Kyle, McCarter 2008 The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, Hebrew, 36-81 Cambridge University Press
O'Connor, Michael 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Epigraphic Semitic Scripts, 89 Oxford University Press