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History of the Arabic alphabet - An innovating alphabet | | History of the Arabic alphabet - An innovating alphabet: Encyclopedia II - History of the Arabic alphabet - An innovating alphabet | | The Arabic alphabet's alphabetical order is different from in the Phoenician, Hebrew, Syriac, and Greek alphabets:-
(Greek waw = digamma)
The old alphabetical order, as in the other alphabets shown here, is known as the Levantine or Abjadi order. If the letters are arranged by their numeric order, the Levantine order is restored:-
(Greek waw = digamma)
(Note: here "numeric order" means the traditional values when these letters were used as numbers. See Arabic numerals, Greek numerals and Hebrew numerals for more details)
This order is much the oldest. The fir ...
See also:History of the Arabic alphabet, History of the Arabic alphabet - An innovating alphabet, History of the Arabic alphabet - Archaic model, History of the Arabic alphabet - Origins, History of the Arabic alphabet - Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions, History of the Arabic alphabet - Early Islamic changes, History of the Arabic alphabet - Reorganization of the alphabet, History of the Arabic alphabet - Adapting the Arabic alphabet for other languages | | | History of the Arabic alphabet, History of the Arabic alphabet - Adapting the Arabic alphabet for other languages, History of the Arabic alphabet - An innovating alphabet, History of the Arabic alphabet - Archaic model, History of the Arabic alphabet - Early Islamic changes, History of the Arabic alphabet - Origins, History of the Arabic alphabet - Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions, History of the Arabic alphabet - Reorganization of the alphabet, Abjad, Levantine order, Writing | | |
| | | History of the Arabic alphabet: Encyclopedia II - History of the Arabic alphabet - An innovating alphabet
History of the Arabic alphabet - An innovating alphabet
The Arabic alphabet's alphabetical order is different from in the Phoenician, Hebrew, Syriac, and Greek alphabets:-
(Greek waw = digamma)
The old alphabetical order, as in the other alphabets shown here, is known as the Levantine or Abjadi order. If the letters are arranged by their numeric order, the Levantine order is restored:-
(Greek waw = digamma)
(Note: here "numeric order" means the traditional values when these letters were used as numbers. See Arabic numerals, Greek numerals and Hebrew numerals for more details)
This order is much the oldest. The first written records of the Arabic alphabet show why the order was changed.
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