Paleo-Hebrew alphabet Paleo-Hebrew alphabet The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: ), also spelt Palaeo-Hebrew alphabet, is a variant of the Phoenician alphabet. Like the Phoenician alphabet, the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet contains 22 letters, all of which are consonants, and is described as an abjad. The term was coined by Solomon Birnbaum in 1954; he wrote, "To apply the term Phoenician to the script of the Hebrews is hardly suitable". Still, the script is nearly identical to the Phoenician script. Archeological evidence of the use of the script by the Israelites for writing the Hebrew language dates to around the 10th century BCE. The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
Tajik alphabet order: . In 2010 it was suggested that the letters might be dropped as well. The letters and have the same function, except that э is used at the beginning of a word (ex. , "Iran"). The alphabet includes a number of letters not found in the Russian alphabet: During the period when the Cyrillicization took place, Ӷ ӷ also appeared a few times in the table of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. The transliteration standards for the Tajik alphabet in Cyrillic into the Latin alphabet are as follows: Notes to the table above: The Hebrew alphabet is, like the Persian