01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Imperial Aramaic
Standard script of Imperial Aramaic, the diplomatic and administrative lingua franca adopted by the Achaemenid Persian Empire in the 6th century BC.
Standard script of Imperial Aramaic, the diplomatic and administrative lingua franca adopted by the Achaemenid Persian Empire in the 6th century BC. It spanned from Egypt to India. As the common ancestor of Hebrew, Arabic, Nabataean, and Syriac scripts, it is the origin point of a script lineage used today by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
Written right to left.
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System
Abjad
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
08REACH