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2 days ago · History of the alphabet. The Phoenician alphabet [b] is a consonantal alphabet (or abjad) [2] used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BCE. It was one of the first alphabets, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. In the history of writing systems ...
- Phoenician Civilization
Phoenicia ( / fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə / ), [4] or Phœnicia, was an...
- History of The Alphabet
The Phoenician and Aramaic alphabets, like their Egyptian...
- 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
May 26, 2024 · The Phoenician alphabet, one of the most influential writing systems in human history, emerged around 1050 BC in the ancient Semitic-speaking cultures of the Levant. Evolving out of earlier Proto-Sinaitic and Proto-Canaanite scripts, it was the world‘s first widely-used phonetic alphabet, representing a major leap forward in the development ...
May 9, 2024 · Phoenician, person who inhabited one of the city-states of ancient Phoenicia, such as Byblos, Sidon, Tyre, or Beirut, or one of their colonies. Located along eastern Mediterranean trade routes, the Phoenician city-states produced notable merchants, traders, and colonizers. By the 2nd millennium bce they had settled in the Levant, North Africa ...
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May 20, 2024 · From the end of the 2nd millennium bce, languages of the Canaanite group began to leave records in Syro-Palestine. Inscriptions using the Phoenician alphabet (from which the modern European alphabets were ultimately to descend) appeared throughout the Mediterranean area as Phoenician commerce flourished; Punic, the form of the Phoenician language used in the important North African colony of ...
1 day ago · Although the first known text by native speakers dates to 1885, the first record of the language is a list of words recorded in 1793 by Alexander MacKenzie. 1885: Motu: grammar by W.G. Lawes: 1886: Guugu Yimidhirr: notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language ...
May 21, 2024 · The Phoenician civilization, originating in the eastern Mediterranean around 1500 BC, was renowned for its maritime prowess, extensive trade networks, and the creation of an alphabet that influenced later writing systems. This article explores the major events surrounding the rise and expansion of the Phoenicians, the cultural and economic exchanges they facilitated, and why it is important to ...
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