Abjads

Abjads / Consonant alphabets

Abjads, or consonant alphabets, represent consonants only, or consonants plus some vowels. Full vowel indication (vocalisation) can be added, usually by means of diacritics, but this is not usually done. Most of abjads, with the exception of Ugaritic, are written from right to left.

Some scripts, such asArabic, are used both as an abjad and as an alphabet.

Abjads currently in use

Arabic	Hebrew
Thaana

Abjads used to a limited extent

Samaritan

Syriac

Abjads that are no longer used

Aramaic (Imperial)	Aramaic (Early)
Ancient Berber	Chorasmian
Elymaic	Hatran
Middle Persian	Manichaean
Nabataean	North Arabian
Paleo-Hebrew	Palmyrene
Parthian	Phoenician
Proto-Sinaitic / Proto-Canaanite	Psalter
Punic	Sabaean
Sogdian	South Arabian
Ugaritic

Please note

Transcriptions in theInternationalPhonetic Alphabet (IPA) are used extensively throughout this website. The IPA transcriptions are the letters and other symbols which appear in square brackets, like this [b], [p]. etc.

You can learn about the IPA and phonetics at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
http://www.nativlang.com/linguistics/ipa-pronunciation-lessons.php
http://cmed.faculty.ku.edu/acdapres/rabeipa/index.html
https://linguischtick.wordpress.com/ipa/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBo5LAVYtX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2frVKeVTKU

Page last modified: 13.04.23

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