An abjad (/ˈæbdʒæd/, Arabic: أبجد), also abgad, is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving the vowel sounds to be inferred...

The Abjad numerals, also called Hisab al-Jummal (Arabic: حِسَاب ٱلْجُمَّل, ḥisāb al-jummal), are a decimal alphabetic numeral system/alphanumeric code...

The Arabic alphabet, or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left...

Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages...

Northwest Semitic abjad, 6 extra letters not in the any of the 22 letters of the Phoenician alphabet or the Northwest Semitic abjad and 4 extra letters...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia...

and Nilo-Saharan languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It originated as an abjad (consonantal alphabet) and was first used to write the Geʽez language, now...

alphabet, in which vowels have status equal to consonants, and with an abjad, in which vowel marking is absent, partial, or optional – in less formal...

both consonants and vowels—from both abugidas and abjads, which only need letters for consonants. Abjads generally lack vowel indicators altogether, while...

Norway, Finland) Iranian manual alphabet (an abjad; also used in Egypt) Israeli manual alphabet (an abjad) Italian manual alphabet Korean manual alphabet...

The Ugaritic writing system is a cuneiform abjad (consonantal alphabet) with syllabic elements used from around either 1400 BCE or 1300 BCE for Ugaritic...

modern authors distinguish between consonantal alphabets, with the term abjad coined for them in 1996, and "true alphabets" with letters for both consonants...

Ottoman Turkish alphabet Script type Abjad Time period 1299–1928 Direction Right-to-left script  Languages Ottoman Turkish Related scripts Parent systems...

introduced by Sa'id Kaban Sedqi. Unlike the Persian alphabet, which is an abjad, Central Kurdish is almost a true alphabet in which vowels are given the...

(or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Hebrew ʾālef א‎, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Syriac...

means of matres lectionis or added diacritical signs, have been called abjads by Peter T. Daniels to distinguish them from alphabets such as the Greek...

The Old Uyghur alphabet is a cursive-joining alphabet with features of an abjad. Letters join together at a baseline, and have both isolated and contextual...

Urdu script is an abjad script derived from the modern Persian script, which is itself a derivative of the Arabic script. As an abjad, the Urdu script...

Kanzul Alam, the sultan of Brunei, dated 28 November 1819. Script type Abjad Time period c. 1300 CE to the present Direction Right-to-left Languages...

Alphabets use graphemes called letters that correspond to spoken phonemes—with abjads only having letters for consonants, and pure alphabets having them for both...

strokes). Abjad – No expression of the individual vowels at all except for indications of an initial or final vowel (e.g., Taylor). Marked abjad – Expression...

The history of the Greek alphabet starts with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms in the 9th–8th centuries BC during early Archaic Greece and continues...

Samekh is the fifteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵ ס‎, Aramaic samek 𐡎 and Syriac semkaṯ ܣ. Samekh represents...

– present) (Zomoroda) Barney & Friends (3 April 2000 – 1 January 2011) (Abjad) Bartok the Magnificent (Movies) Batman: The Animated Series (15 July 2000...

name and shape, it is a variant of ṣād. Its numerical value is 800 (see Abjad numerals). In Modern Standard Arabic and many dialects, it represents an...

The Uyghur Arabic alphabet (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر ئەرەب يېزىقى, romanized: Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi or UEY) is a version of the Arabic alphabet used for writing the...

The Libyco-Berber alphabet is an abjad writing system that was used during the first millennium BC by various Berber peoples of North Africa and the Canary...

are based around Hebrew names, such as Gimel, Sameth, and Aleph. It is an abjad, meaning there are no vowels. It is read and written from left to right...

by assuming they represented what would later become the common Semitic abjad. One example was the character , to which Gardiner assigned the ⟨b⟩ sound...

The Manichaean script is an abjad-based writing system rooted in the Semitic family of alphabets and associated with the spread of Manichaeism from southwest...