Aramaic script and the languages in Central Asia
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Legend:
1) Transcription
2) Old Sogdian script (from 4th cent. A.D.)
3) Manichean Sogdian script (Turfan, 9th-10th cent.)
4) Christian Sogdian script (Turfan, 9th-10th cent.)
5) Phonetic values (in Sogdian language).
Source: graphic rework of: P.O. Skjærvø, ‘Aramaic Scripts for Iranian Languages’, in P.T. Daniels, W. Bright, The World’s Writing Systems, New York - Oxford 1996, p. 519, tab. 48.2.
Aramaic and Arabic script
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Legend:
1) Transcription
2) Old Aramaic (8th cent. B.C.)
3) Aramaic Nabataean script (1st cent. B.C. – 4th cent. A.D.)
4) Arabic script
Numerical signs in Aramaic inscriptions
Script of Hatra (1st-3rd cent. A.D.) |
Nabataean script (1st cent. B.C. – 4th cent. A.D.) |
Palmyrene script (1st cent. B.C. – 3rd cent. A.D.) |
Phoenician script |
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Ten |
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Hundred |
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Source: Ifrah, G. (1984), Storia universale dei numeri, Milano, p. 379