The Arabic alphabet has or had symbols representing consonants.
 Vowel-less alphabets are called abjads, currently exemplified in others such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac
== Names of letters ==The Phoenician letter names, in which each letter got associated with a word that begins with that sound (acrophony), continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic

