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  2. Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Phoenician alphabet[b] is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) [2] used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. 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, the Phoenician script also ...

  3. Phoenician language - Wikipedia

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    The following table presents the consonant phonemes of the Phoenician language as represented in the Phoenician alphabet, alongside their standard Semiticist transliteration and reconstructed phonetic values in the International Phonetic Alphabet: [21] [22]

  4. Paleo-Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Phoenician 12th c. BCE. Pahlavi. The Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, including pre-Biblical and Biblical Hebrew, from southern Canaan, also known as the biblical kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah.

  5. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Phoenician. 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 ...

  6. Pe (Semitic letter) - Wikipedia

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    Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic fāʾ ف ‎, Aramaic pē 𐡐, Hebrew pē פ ‎, Phoenician pē 𐤐, and Syriac pē ܦ. (in abjadi order). This article contains Ugaritic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Ugaritic alphabet.

  7. Aleph - Wikipedia

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    Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic ʾalif ا ‎, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Hebrew ʾālef א ‎, North Arabian 𐪑, Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez ʾälef አ. These letters are believed to have derived from an ...

  8. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The South Arabian alphabet, a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge'ez abugida was descended. Abugidas are writing systems with characters comprising consonant–vowel sequences. Alphabets without obligatory vowels are called abjads, with examples being Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac. The omission of vowels was ...

  9. Shin (letter) - Wikipedia

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    Shin (letter) Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) is the twenty-first and penultimate letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic sīn س ‎ [a] and šīn ش‎‎ ‎ [b][c], Aramaic šīn 𐡔, Hebrew šīn ש ‎, Phoenician šīn 𐤔 and Syriac šīn ܫ. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma (Σ) (which in turn gave ...