Arabic Script Adapted Aramaic Alphabet circa 800 B. C. Given by Phoenicians at Damascus Near Sidon circa 1300 B. C.

The consonantal Hebrew alphabet which the Canaanites had adopted after the Tower of Babel was subsequently taught to the Arameans (progeny of Shem’s son Aram) at Damascus in the days of king Agenor’s son Phoenix (Phoenicians) who also took that alphabet west to the Mycenaeans of Greece, and several hundred years later that alphabet of the Arameans learned by the Arabs of Nabatea (named for Neboiath a son of Abraham and Hagar), the source for the Arabic script.