The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף-בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alephbet 'Ivri), known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, and because of its place of origin, the Assyrian script (not to be confused with the Syriac alphabet used to write the Aramaic languages of Syriac and Assyrian Neo-Aramaic) is the better-known of two script standards used to write the Hebrew language — the other being the Samaritan script. It consists ...
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The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף-בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alephbet 'Ivri), known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, and because of its place of origin, the Assyrian script (not to be confused with the Syriac alphabet used to write the Aramaic languages of Syriac and Assyrian Neo-Aramaic) is the better-known of two script standards used to write the Hebrew language — the other being the Samaritan script. It consists of 22 letters and, in mildly adapted forms, is also used for writing several languages of the Jewish diaspora, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as other Jewish languages. Five of these letters have a different form when appearing as the last letter in a word. The Hebrew alphabet is written from right to left, not only when writing Hebrew, but all Jewish languages that employ it, irrespective of the language's actual phylogenetic language family.
The Hebrew word for "alphabet" is alephbet (אלפבית), and it is derived from...
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