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Serto is one of the Syriac scripts for Aramaic used to write West Syriac.Its name comes from the word serta (ܣܪܛܐ) which means line. It was a cursive,easier to write evolution of the Estrangela script. The letters are simpler and go with the flow. The Serto script developed under Byzantine rule. This is also evident in its vowel diacritics which were adopted directly from Greek  writing. The letters are Α,Ο,Ε,Η,ΟΥ or a,o,e,i,u respectively. While the Eastern Madnkhaya developed under the Sassanids. Table of Serto letters Serṭā Transliteration IPA ʾ [ʔ] or silent hard: b soft: ḇ (also bh, v) hard: [b] soft: [v] or [w] hard: g soft: ḡ (also gh, ġ) hard: [ɡ] soft: [ɣ] hard: d soft: ḏ (also dh, ð) hard: [d] soft: [ð] h [h] consonant: w mater lectionis: ū or ō (also u or o) consonant: [w] mater lectionis: [u] or [o] z [z] ḥ [ħ], [x], or [χ] ṭ...

aramaic demonstrarive pronouns

The modern Hebrew alphabet is modeled upon the Imperial Aramaic alphabet  ,which was used for writing Aramaic by the Persian Empire.For this and practical reasons nowadays the Modern Hebrew alphabet is used for writing Aramaic literature. Texts in Jewish Neo-Aramaic,Biblical Aramaic and the Aramaic of the Talmud are written in the Hebrew script as well. Therefore it is important to learn the Hebrew scipt along with the Aramaic scripts.

Aramaic was a consonantal script mostly lacking vowels and was wriiten from right to left.It originally served Aramaic (west semitic languages. And letter became the official script for the assyrian and Old Persian (Achaemenid) empires from 6-4 BC It was the source of many alphabets of the world and the vast majority of Semitic scripts (Samaritan, Jewish, Palmyra, Nabataean, Syrian, Palestinian-Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean). The Aramaic writing had an impact even on Iranian writing systems (Parthian, middle Persian, Sogdian, and Khorezm).It was the basis (through the medium of Sogdian) for Uighur, Mongolian, and the Orkhon-Yenisei alphabets. There is a hypothesis about the Indian Brahmi scripts and Kharosthi originating from the Aramaic script. The center for the spread of Aramaic culture was the city of Damascus, and later - Palmyra and Edessa (modern Urfa in Turkey). Aramaeans mingled everywere with the local population and they assimilated it relatively eas...

At its height the Persian Empire was huge stretching from Macedonia and Thrace to the Indian Subcontinent.  Occupation of Upper Mesopotamia. In the 6th century B.C.E. the Persian Empire devastated the lands of Mesopotamia incorporating them into the Empire. These lands formerly belonged to the Median and Neo-Babylonian Empires which themselves in turn took them after destroying the Neo-Assyrian Empire.  Adoption of Aramaic. The Achaemenids after capturing Upper Mesopotamia- the land of the Arameans- adopted the Aramaic language as a means of communication,trade and official purposes for the entire Empire. This language was called retrospectively Imperial Aramaic or Official Aramaic and served as a very important means of running and keeping the vast Empire together. Imperial Aramaic was written in the Imperial Aramaic alphabet which dates from the 5th century B.C when Aramaic was adopted as the lingua franca -the language of trade, official documents and communication bet...