The Aramaic language is the world's oldest alphabetic language through the Phoenician Aramaic, from which the Greeks borrowed their alphabet in the 7th-8th centuries BC and thus became the ancestor of the Western alphabet. From this period until the 4th century BC. Aramaic was the lingua franca,

The Aramaic language is the world's oldest alphabetic language through the Phoenician Aramaic, from which the Greeks borrowed their alphabet in the 7th-8th centuries BC and thus became the ancestor of the Western alphabet. From this period until the 4th century BC. Aramaic was the lingua franca,

The Aramaic language is the world's oldest alphabetic language through the Phoenician Aramaic, from which the Greeks borrowed their alphabet in the 7th-8th centuries BC and thus became the ancestor of the Western alphabet. From this period until the 4th century BC. Aramaic was the lingua franca,

The Aramaic language is the world's oldest alphabetic language through the Phoenician Aramaic, from which the Greeks borrowed their alphabet in the 7th-8th centuries BC and thus became the ancestor of the Western alphabet. From this period until the 4th century BC. Aramaic was the lingua franca,