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

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