A. Abjads / Consonant alphabets

Abjads, or consonant alphabets, represent consonants only, or consonants plus some vowels. Full vowel indication (vocalisation) can be added, usually by means of diacritics, but this is not usually done. Most of abjads, with the exception of Ugaritic, are written from right to left.
Some scripts, such as Arabic, are used both as an abjad and as an alphabet.

Abjads currently in use

Syriac	Hebrew	Arabic
		Samaritan

Abjads that are no longer used

Aramaic (Imperial)	Aramaic (Early)	Ancient Berber
Nabataean	Middle Persian	Mandaic
Psalter	Phoenician	Parthian
Sabaean	Punic	Proto-Sinaitic / Proto-Canaanite
Ugaritic	South Arabian	Sogdian

Please note

Transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are used extensively throughout this website. The IPA transcriptions are the letters and other symbols which appear in square brackets, like this [b], [p]. etc.
You can learn which sounds are represented by these letters and symbols at:
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page30184.html
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page12580.html (en français)