Paleo-Hebrew converter

Paleo-Hebrew is the script used to write Hebrew in the First Temple period, before the square Aramaic script (the letters used today) became standard during and after the Babylonian exile. It is closely related to the Phoenician alphabet that much of the ancient Mediterranean world adapted for writing.

The two scripts share the same 22 letters in the same order and largely the same sounds; only the shapes differ. This converter maps each square letter to its counterpart in the Phoenician Unicode block, since paleo-Hebrew does not have its own dedicated block and the letterforms are close enough to be legible as paleo-Hebrew.