The transition was made possible because the two languages shared similarities. Also because the 22 letter Aramaic alphabet was much easier to master than the 600 or so signs of the cuneiform. The ...

Aramaic influenced both Arabic and Hebrew, sister Semitic languages, and even contributed to the writng of Mongolian and Uighur, in terms of alphabet development, lexical borrowing, and cultural ...

While critics argue that the original alphabet likely derived from a grouping of Afro-Asiatic languages – including Akkadian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Ethiopic and Hebrew – Petrovich claims that ...