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Together with about 20 known Proto-Canaanite inscriptions, it is also known as Early Alphabetic, i.e. the earliest trace of alphabetic writing and the common ancestor of both the Ancient South Arabian script and the Phoenician alphabet, which led to many modern alphabets including the Greek alphabet.
- Ugaritic alphabet - Wikipedia
The Ugaritic writing system is a Cuneiform Abjad,...
- Proto-Sinaitic script - Simple English Wikipedia, the free ...
From the shape of the signs, Proto-Sinaitic may be an...
- Ugaritic alphabet - Wikipedia
Abjad Proto-Sinai (disebut juga Abjad Proto-Kanaan) adalah abjad dari Zaman Perunggu Tengah yang dibuktikan dengan adanya kumpulan kecil prasasti yang ditemukan di Sarabit al-Khadim di Semenanjung Sinai, Mesir. Abjad ini dianggap sebagai jejak paling awal penulisan alfabet, dan leluhur dari Abjad Arab Selatan Kuno dan Abjad Fenisia.
The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used to write Semitic languages in the Levant during the 2nd millennium BCE. Nearly all alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today ultimately go back to this Semitic script. [1] Its first origins can be traced back to a Proto-Sinaitic script developed in Ancient ...
Writing direction: variable. Used to write: Canaanite or Paleo-Hebrew, an extinct Semitic language. Script family: Proto-Sinaitic / Proto-Canaanite. Proto-Sinaitic / Proto-Canaanite script. This is one version of the Proto-Canaanite script using Phoenician/Hebrew alphabetical order. The actual arrangement of letters used is uncertain.
The Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets developed in the wake of the Bronze Age collapse, out of their immediate predecessor script Proto-Canaanite (Late Proto-Sinaitic) during the 13th to 12th centuries BCE, and earlier Proto-Sinaitic scripts.
Byblian. In the light of present information, the origin of the alphabet appears as the culmination of developments which took place in the Levant, where both Egyptian, and Mesopotamian (cuneiform) writing were known and occasionally used from the third millennium B.C. onwards. That the earliest ‘Canaanite’ writing, from which the later ...
