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Proto-Canaanite alphabet. Proto-Canaanite is the name given to. (a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan, dating to about the 17th century BC and later. [1] (b) a hypothetical ancestor of the Phoenician script before some cut-off date, typically 1050 BC, with an undefined affinity to Proto-Sinaitic. [2]
Proto-Sinaitic script. Articles relating to the Proto-Sinaitic script (c. 19th century BCE) and to writing systems derived from it.
‘ Recent discoveries and developments in Proto-Sinaitic ’, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte 40 (1940) 101ffGoogle Scholar Leibovitch , J. ‘ The date of the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions ’, Le Muséon 76 ( 1948 ) 201ff, with ‘ An additional note ’ by Albright , F. W. , ibid. 203ff Google Scholar
The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30-40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as two inscriptions from Wadi el-Hol in Middle Egypt. Together with about 20 known Proto-Canaanite inscriptions,
Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common ancestor to the Semitic language family. There is no consensus regarding the location of the Proto-Semitic Urheimat: scholars hypothesize that it may have originated in the Levant, the Sahara, the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, or northern Africa. [1]
