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To quote (loosely) from my own book on the topic, as far as we can tell, it happened in the late third century BCE, when the original Hebrew script was passed over in favour of the Aramaic script by the Sanhedrin (rabbinical assembly) as its script of choice for the biblical canon then being compiled and transcribed.To downplay the historic significance of what they were doing, its name was changed, too, from ktav ashuri (“Assyrian script”) to the more neutral ktav merubá (“Square script”)—by which name it is still known today.It was an extraordinary decision, nonetheless. It was to be expected that the Aramaic language and script be used in the civil administration of the new Persian province of Judea—but to use that same script for the biblical canon and the Talmud instead of the one used by Moses, David, and Solomon is astonishing. Not for nothing is it one of the best kept secrets in history.Today such a move would be unthinkable, but we should remember the historical context of the Sanhedrin’s decision: as the official imperial language and the lingua franca of most of the Middle East for nearly five hundred years, Aramaic was the Latin of its time in this part of the world – with all the prestige and significance that this implies. Furthermore, it could be argued that adopting the Aramaic script was not a complete renunciation of the Old Hebrew: although the forms of its letters had changed considerably from their ancestral Canaanite origins, in name and function they were still the same characters. In addition, since no great body of work had been committed to or at least had survived in the old script, there was nothing much to lose in terms of a written cultural heritage. Finally, since Old Hebrew was essentially the same script used by the Phoenicians and all other Canaanites, it could be argued that there was nothing uniquely Judean about it anyway.To all this I would add yet another argument, for which there is no explicit evidence in the sources but it is compelling nonetheless: the Aramaic script was graphically simply more practical and better suited to the task of large-scale documentation. With its clear discipline of forms designed around a square template, it was certainly developed with this in mind by generations of Mesopotamian scribes. By contrast, the Old Hebrew alphabet, which had been typically limited to comparatively short texts on stone or clay, had little “rhythm” or consistency, and suffered from poor or ill-defined distinctions between certain letters:Sample biblical text in Square Hebrew (top) and in a simulation of the original Hebrew script (pre-585 BCE; courtesy of Kris J. Udd’s Paleo-Hebrew Fonts )Nevertheless, the topic was clearly a sensitive one, and discussions on the subject kept to a minimum. Early Talmudic debates steered a wide berth around it altogether.To settle the matter it was decided to adopt the suggestion of Rabbi Hisda, namely, that the Old Hebrew script is in fact “ktav libonaah”. The meaning of libonaah is a mystery: it isn’t Hebrew – its spelling doesn’t even comply with Hebrew grammar – but it sounds vaguely pejorative (the Hebrew word honaah, for example, means “deception”), and it’s possible they deliberately used a Babylonian code word that future generations wouldn’t understand. At any rate, the way it was interpreted in the final resolution was that it belonged to the common, i.e., non-Jewish, inhabitants of the land:Originally the Torah was given to Israel in the Hebrew script and in the sacred language [Hebrew]; in the time of Ezra the Torah was given in the Assyrian [Aramaic] script and the Aramaic language. They chose for Israel the Assyrian script and the Hebrew language, leaving the Hebrew script and the Aramaic language for the ordinary people.The implicit message was therefore clear, not to say intimidating: “Yes, the Torah was given in the Hebrew script originally, but now it's in the Aramaic script—deal with it, or consider yourself not one of us.”And so it came to pass that the original Hebrew script was “kicked upstairs” to largely ceremonial roles, such as depicting the name of God in biblical scrolls, coin inscriptions invoking the heroic Israelite kingdoms of old (see b in illustration—courtesy of J. Naveh), and so on. In a revival of this practice, some of the coins of modern Israel also boast a word or two in the old script on the back (a in the illustration):But today, even educated Israelis cannot read it—nor, oddly enough, are they at all curious as to what it says. The letters on the modern sheqel coin, for example, spell “YHD,” i.e., Yehud (the old Persian imperial name for Judea), yet most Israelis have no idea what it says; if pressed, they assume it says sheqel.None of this is taught, or even hinted at, in modern Israeli education. Like my friends and everyone else I know, I too assumed, in my teens, that the Old Hebrew alphabet was simply an earlier incarnation of the familiar forms of Square Hebrew. Only occasionally did I puzzle at the absence of any intermediate stages to explain the dramatic differences in some cases, or indeed why older texts were sometimes more recognizable than texts from later periods. It is a measure both of the historic sensitivity of the subject and of the recent greater security in the nation’s cultural identity that in the past few years the Old Hebrew script has been tentatively introduced into the Israeli school curriculum, albeit still in a very limited and somewhat gimmicky fashion (“At the camp, the children will learn to write their names in ancient Hebrew and come away with a little scroll,” to quote a schoolteacher in a radio interview in 1995). Even then, however, nary a whisper is made of its unceremonious dumping in favor of a younger and once glamorous sister script.

I wonder how many of you are aware of this. Once an army dog gets old ( 8 - 9 yrs) he/ she is given an honourable retirement and shifted to this old home for dogs at RVC centre Meerut where they remain for the rest of their lives. All the dogs here are also available for adoption by dog lovers free of cost. Though they are old ( 8 +) they are highly trained and most of them (at least those who are below 10) are extremely fit and sprightly. They are adopted both by individuals and by units as guard dogs. Some of these dogs have even been awarded a COAS commendationSending the application sample herewith,however it should be addressed toComdtRVC Centre & CollegeMeerut CanttMeerut - 250001and not to the DG as is shown in the letterThe striked out parts contain name and from address.

Since childhood, creating a writing system has always been my hobby.This script was created for my conlang which is far from being complete. I’ve tried to make the shapes of the letters simple, yet having a possibility of being written in good calligraphy.Here is the alphabet:The phonetic value of most letters is the same as their corresponding Latin letter in IPA , except y /j/ and š /ʃ/.The writing system is abugida written from left to right. A diacritic placed above or below a consonant represents a vowel.I use the letter t and a diacritic to form a syllable, totally 5 forms:For some historical reasons, as you see, there is no specific diacritic to represent the vowel a in the middle of a word.When a dot placed at the end of a word, it indicates that the preceding consonant is without any vowel. And the dot placed in the middle of a word indicates that the following consonant is geminated.The diphthongs are made by adding y or v after the letter and long vowels adding a, i or v.In my conlang, the diphthongs are rare and were adopted from foreign languages. The original diphthongs like *ai and *au have monophongized to ē and ō.This is a sample of the handwriting transliterated from 4 lines of Latin Aeneid, for my own conlang is not yet complete.Edit:Here is the reversed alphabet, as more applicable to my conlangtt is [tː], hh is [xː], v is [ʋ], y is [j], c is [ts], i and u are used to constitute diphthongs or long vowel ī and ū. The last letter is where an initial vowel marked.