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The script is written right to left, and has only one case. Five of the letters - kaf, mem, nun, pe and tsadi - have a different appearance when used as the last letter in a word. This is in conformity to the nature of vowels in the [[Semitic languages]] as a whole, where consonant clusters indicate the "class" of a word.

The script is written right to left, and has only one case. Five of the letters - kaf, mem, nun, pe and tsadi - have a different appearance when used as the last letter in a word. This is in conformity to the nature of vowels in the [[Semitic languages]] as a whole, where consonant clusters indicate the "category of meaning" for a word.

The modern script is not the original Hebrew alphabet, but a development of Aramaic. In some Hebrew literature, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the original Hebrew alphabet is used for the name of [[God]] - yod, he, vav, he, within a text employing the "modern"  Aramaic derived script.{{fact}} The original Hebrew script is much closer to the pictographs from which the alphabetic script was derived.<ref>http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~rfradkin/phon-heb.html</ref> The alphabetic signs were stylized derivations of pictograms, and their names and phonetic values were derived from the common objects they were based on.

The modern script is not the original Hebrew alphabet, but a development of Aramaic. In some Hebrew literature, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the original Hebrew alphabet is used for the name of [[God]] - yod, he, vav, he, within a text employing the "modern"  Aramaic derived script.{{fact}} The original Hebrew script is much closer to the pictographs from which the alphabetic script was derived.<ref>http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~rfradkin/phon-heb.html</ref> The alphabetic signs were stylized derivations of pictograms, and their names and phonetic values were derived from the common objects they were based on.