Waw/Aramaic alphabet

other symbols instead of Syriac script. The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken by ancient Aramean pre-Christian tribes

Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic wāw و‎, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו‎, Phoenician wāw 𐤅, and Syriac waw

has a position corresponding to the Aramaic letter samek 𐡎‎, which has no cognate letter in the Arabic alphabet historically. The loss of sameḵ was compensated

of the 1st millennium BC. It was one of the first alphabets, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region

It is one of the Semitic abjads descending from the Aramaic alphabet through the Palmyrene alphabet, and shares similarities with the Phoenician, Hebrew