Aramaic Alphabet

Egyptian hieroglyphs 32 c. BCE

• Proto-Sinaitic alphabet 19 c. BCE
  • Ugaritic 15 c. BCE
  • Proto-Canaanite 14 c. BCE
    • Phoenician 12 c. BCE
      • Paleo-Hebrew 10 c. BCE
        • Samaritan 6 c. BCE
      • Aramaic 8 c. BCE
        • Kharoṣṭhī 4 c. BCE
        • Brāhmī 4 c. BCE
          • Brahmic family (see)
            • e.g. Devanagari 13 c. CE
        • Hebrew 3 c. BCE
        • Thaana 4 c. BCE
        • Pahlavi 3 c. BCE
          • Avestan 4 c. CE
        • Palmyrene 2 c. BCE
        • Syriac 2 c. BCE
          • Sogdian 2 c. BCE
            • Orkhon (Old Turkic) 6 c. CE
              • Old Hungarian ca. 650
            • Old Uyghur
              • Mongolian 1204 hh
          • Nabataean 2 c. BCE
            • Arabic 4 c. CE
              • N'Ko 20 c. CE
        • Mandaic 2 c. CE
      • Greek 8 c. BCE
        • Etruscan 8 c. BCE
          • Latin 7 c. BCE
          • Runic 2 c. CE
          • Ogham 4 c. CE
        • Coptic 3 c. CE
        • Gothic 3 c. CE
        • Armenian 405
        • Georgian ca. 430 CE
        • Glagolitic 862
        • Cyrillic ca. 940
          • Old Permic 1372
      • Paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) 7 c. BCE
    • Epigraphic South Arabian 9 c. BCE
      • Ge’ez 5–6 c. BCE