Ashuri Letter Alap

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Following our introductory lessons about the Aramaic Alphabet, it is now time to go through each of the letters in turn, and introduce you to each of them. You will be told the key facts about each Aramaic letter, and you will master each letter until you know the entire alphabet!

The best place to start is at the very beginning...

The very first letter of the Aramaic Alphabet is called Alap.

The key facts about Alap are as follows:

• Alap has the sound of the vowel it carries.
• It is a special letter, called a guttural.
• It has the Gematria (numerical value) of 1.

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