The Aramaic alphabet is ancestral to what alphabet known variously by scholars as the Jewish script?
Aramaic language Aramaic (אַרָמָיָא "Arāmāyā", Syriac: ܐܪܡܝܐ‎ , Arabic: آرامية‎ ‎ ) is a language or group of languages belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic language family. More specifically, it is part of the Northwest Semitic group, which also includes the Canaanite languages such as Hebrew and Phoenician. The Aramaic alphabet was widely adopted for other languages and is ancestral to the Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic alphabets.
Proto-Semitic language The Proto-Semitic language is the hypothetical proto-language ancestral to the historical Semitic languages of the Middle East. Its original Urheimat has been proposed to be in northern Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant, with a 2009 study proposing that it may have originated about 7400 BC. Semitic is considered a subfamily of the larger Afroasiatic macrofamily.