For ancient Greek fonts, see this page.. These fonts follow the basic key-mapping of the BibleWorks™ Hebrew font, with a few exceptions. Since the Masoretic text does not use word dividers, and many ancient Hebrew inscriptions do, the “period” key has been used for the word divider dot, both upper and lower case.

Ancient Semitic Scripts. The Ancient Semitic Scripts area was created by late Yoram Gnat (יורם גנת).Presently it is not maintained. This page contains a collection of fonts related to the history of the Hebrew writing. Starting with the Proto-Canaanite continuing with Phoenician/Canaanite, Paleo-Hebrew, Aramaic, early Hebrew Square Script - all the way to the modern Hebrew letter forms.

Semite, member of a people speaking any of a group of related languages presumably derived from a common language, Semitic (see Semitic languages). The term came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews, some Ethiopians, and Aramaean tribes. Mesopotamia, the western coast of the

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East Semitic language: the East Semitic languages underwent more early changes than any of the other languages, and were never written with an alphabet or abjad, but rather with a cuneiform syllabary that was totally unrelated to any of these alphabets. 1 Semitic Alphabets in North Semitic Alphabetical Order

Proto-Sinaitic, also referred to as Sinaitic, and Proto-Canaanite (when found in Canaan), is a Middle Bronze Age (Middle Kingdom) script attested in a small corpus of inscriptions found at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, considered the earliest trace of alphabetic writing, and the common ancestor of the Ancient South Arabian script and Phoenician alphabet (and by extension ...

The Phoenician alphabet is an alphabet of the abjad type, consisting of 22 consonant letters only, leaving vowel sounds implicit, although certain late varieties use matres lectionis for some vowels.. Its immediate predecessor, the Proto-Canaanite alphabet or early "West Semitic alphabet", used in the final stages of the Late Bronze Age in the Syro-Hittite kingdoms, is the oldest fully matured ...

The Early Semitic m evolved into m in the Middle Semitic and continued to evolve into m in the Late Semitic script. The Late Semitic script became the מ and ם (final mem) of the Modern Hebrew script. The Early and Middle Semitic script is the origin to the Greek and Roman M.

I installed the fixed mac font, in Font book, I can see the ancient Hebrew fonts correctly, but when I type in Pages, I’m getting regular modern Hebrew letters for the Semitic Early font instead of the ancient pictographic letters.