Chapter 8. Scripts of the Middle East
Most of the alphabetic writing systems descend from the ancient Phoenician alphabet, but they do so along several different lines of descent. In the last chapter, we looked at a collection of scripts that all descended from the ancient Greek alphabet (although the relationship between the Greek alphabet and the Armenian and Georgian alphabets seems to be more distant and speculative, these two alphabets do share many common characteristics with the ancient Greek alphabet).
In this chapter, we'll look at a group of scripts that descended down a different line: from the ancient Aramaic alphabet. These scripts have several important things in common, many of which distinguish them from the scripts we looked ...
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