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2 days ago · The Phoenician alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (or abjad) used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BCE. It was the first mature [clarification needed] alphabet, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region.
- Phoenician Civilization
Phoenicia ( / fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə / ), [4] or Phœnicia, was an...
- History of The Alphabet
The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal...
- Nabataean
Example in Nabataean alphabet. The Nabataean script is an...
- Paleohispanic Script
The Paleohispanic scripts are the writing systems created in...
- Tsade
Tsade (also spelled ṣade, ṣādē, ṣaddi, ṣad, tzadi, sadhe,...
- Phoenician Civilization
2 days ago · Most scripts used to write Semitic languages are abjads – a type of alphabetic script that omits some or all of the vowels, which is feasible for these languages because the consonants are the primary carriers of meaning in the Semitic languages.
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3 days ago · Greek alphabet. The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [3] [4] It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [5] and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.
4 days ago · The Hebrew alphabet ( Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, [a] Alefbet ivri ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
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5 days ago · Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Nodes in the peer-to-peer bitcoin network verify transactions through cryptography and record them in a public distributed ledger, called a blockchain, without central oversight.
