Mandaic alphabet | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-11-08

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Mandaic alphabet

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The Mandaic alphabet is thought to have evolved between the 2nd and 7th century CE from either a cursive form of Aramaic (as did Syriac) or from the Parthian chancery script. The exact roots of the script are difficult to determine.
It was developed by members of the Mandaean gnostic religion of southern Mesopotamia to write the Mandaic language for liturgical purposes.
Classical Mandaic and its descendant Neo-Mandaic are still in limited use. The script has changed very little over centuries of use.The Mandaic name for the script is Abagada or Abaga, after the first letters of the alphabet. Rather than the ancient Semitic names for the letters (aleph, beth, gimel), the letters are known as a, ba, ga and so on.It is written from right to left in horizontal lines. It is a cursive script, but not all letters connect within a word. Spaces separate individual words.