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<p>The ancient <b>Aramaic alphabet</b> was used to write the <a href="page.php?w=Aramaic_language">Aramaic language</a>s spoken by ancient <a href="page.php?w=Aramean">Aramean</a> pre-Christian peoples throughout the <a href="page.php?w=Fertile_Crescent">Fertile Crescent</a>. It was also adopted by other peoples as their own <a href="page.php?w=alphabet">alphabet</a> when empires and their subjects underwent linguistic Aramaization during a <a href="page.php?w=language_shift">language shift</a> for governing purposes -- a precursor to <a href="page.php?w=Arabization">Arabization</a></p><p>
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