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- Africa is the 2nd largest continent[5] .
- C12 is a major isotope of carbon.
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Categories of Dogs as of 2011.
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Comparative Chart of Abjads, Extinct and Extant
| ID | Name | In Use | Do the letters connect | Direction | # of letters | Country of Origin | Used By | Languages | Time Period (age) | Influenced By | Writing Systems Influenced |
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| 1 | Syriac | yes | yes | right-left | 22 consonants | middle-east | syrian church | Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic | ~ 700 BCE[6] | Nabatean, Palmyran, Mandaic, Parthian, Pahlavi, Sogdian, Avestan and Manichean[6] | |
| 2 | Hebrew | yes | no | right-left | 22 consonants + final letters | Ancient Israel | Israelis, Jewish-People | Hebrew, Ladino, Bukhari, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic | > 1100 BCE | Proto-Hebrew, Early Aramaic | |
| 3 | Arabic | yes | yes | right-left, numerals are written left-right | 28 (9 numbers) | middle-east | Over 200million people | Arabic, Bosnian, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kyrghyz, Malay, Persian/Farsi, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Turkish, Urdu, Uyghur, others[6] | ~ 500 ACE[6] | Nabataean Aramaic | |
| 4 | Aramaic (Imperial) | no | no | right-left | 22 | middle-east | Archaemenid, Persian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires | Imperial Aramaic, Hebrew | ~ 500 BCE[6] | Phoenician | Late Hebrew, Nabataean, Syriac |
| 5 | Aramaic (Early) | no | no | right-left | 22 | middle-east | Jews | Languages | ~ 1000-900 BCE | Phoenician | Hebrew, Imperial Aramaic.[6] |
| 6 | Ancient Berber | no | no | top-bottom, right-left[6] | 22 (right-left) 25 (up-down)[7] | North Africa[7] | Women in Tuareg Society[7] | Tifinagh[7] | 600 BCE | Punic[7], South Arabian[6] | Tifinagh[7] |
| 7 | Nabataean | no | no | right-left | 22 | middle-east | Nabataean Kingdom[7] | Nabataean | 200 BCE[7] | Aramaic | Arabic |
| 8 | Middle Persian, (Pahlavi) | no | no | right-left | 22 | middle-east | Sassanian Empire | Pahlavi, Middle Persian | [citation needed] | Aramaic | Psalter, Avestan[6] |
| 9 | Mandaic | no | yes | right-left | 24 | Iraq, Iran | Ahvāz, Iran | Mandaic | ~ 200 ACE | Aramaic | Neo-Mandaic |
| 10 | Psalter | no | yes | right-left | 21 | Northwestern China [6] | Persian Script for Paper Writing[6] | XXXX | ~ 400 ACE [8] | Syriac [citation needed] | |
| 11 | Phoenician | no | no | right-left, Boustrophedon | 22 | Byblos[6] | Canaanites | Phoenician, Punic | ~ 1000-1500 BCE[6] | Proto- Canaanite Alphabet[6] | Punic(variant), Greek, Etruscan, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew |
| 12 | Parthian | no | no | right-left | 22 | Parthia (modern day equivilant of Northeastern Iran)[6] | Parthian & Sassanian periods of Persian Empire[6] | Parthian | ~200 BCE[6] | Aramaic | |
| 13 | Sabaean | no | no system | right-left, boustrophedon | 29 | Southern Arabia (Sheba) | Southern Arabians | Sabaean | ~ 500 BCE[6] | Byblos[6] | Ethiopic[6] |
| 14 | Punic | no | no | right-left | 22 | Carthage (Tunisia), North Africa, Mediterranean[6] | Punic Culture | Punic, Neo-Punic | Phoenician [citation needed] | ||
| 15 | Proto-Sinaitic, Proto-Canaanite | no | no | right-left | 30 | Egypt, Sinai, Canaan | Canaanites | Canaanite | ~ 1900-1700 BCE | In conjunction with Egyptian Hieroglyphs [citation needed] | Phoenician, Hebrew |
| 16 | Ugaritic | no | yes | left-right | 30 | Ugarit (modern day Northern Syria) | Ugarites | Ugaritic, Hurrian | ~ 1400 BCE[6] | ||
| 17 | South Arabian | no | no | right-left, left-right (reversed letters) | 29 | South-Arabia (Yemen) | D'mt Kingdom | Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Semitic, Chushitic, Nilo-Saharan [citation needed] | 900 BCE [citation needed] | Proto-Sinaitic | Ge'ez (Ethiopia) |
| 18 | Sogdian | no | no (yes in later versions) | right-left, left-right(vertical) | 20 | parts of China (Xinjiang), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan | Buddhists, Manichaens | Sogdian | ~ 400 ACE | Syriac | Old Uyghur alphabet, Yaqnabi(Tajikistan dialect) [6] |
| 19 | Samaritan | yes (700 people) | no | right-left | 22 | Mesopatamia or Levant (Disputed) | Samaritans (Nablus and Holon) | Samaritan Aramaic, Samaritan Hebrew | ~ 100-0 BCE | Paleo-Hebrew Alphabet |
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- ^ Doe, John. "Africa the Continent". Africa. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w [1], http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alphabetic.htm.
- ^ a b c d e f g h [2], http://www.ancientscripts.com/berber.html.
- ^ [3], Encyclopedia Iranica.