Imperial Aramaic Unicode Characters page 1

The Imperial Aramaic block contains characters used in the Imperial Aramaic script, which was used across the Near East as a lingua franca during the Achaemenid Empire (6th to 4th centuries BCE). The script is alphabetic and is closely related to Phoenician. Imperial Aramaic was used for official inscriptions, administrative documents, and correspondence throughout the empire. This block includes all the characters needed to write in Imperial Aramaic, reflecting the script’s historical importance as one of the earliest widely adopted writing systems in the ancient world..