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The Phoenician alphabet [b] is an abjad ... Table of letters. The chart shows the graphical evolution of Phoenician letter forms into other alphabets.
Pages in category "Phoenician alphabet" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... (Semitic letter) Phoenician (Unicode block) Q. Qoph; R. Resh; S.
Phoenician is a Unicode block containing characters used across the Mediterranean world from the 12th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. The Phoenician alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in July 2006 with the release of version 5.0.
The Phoenician alphabet spread to Greece during this period, where it became the source of all modern European scripts. Phoenician belongs to the Canaanite languages and as such is quite similar to Biblical Hebrew and other languages of the group, at least in its early stages, and is therefore mutually intelligible with them.
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. [5]
Note that ’ and ‘ were originally full consonants in the Phoenician language (glottal stop ʔ and voiced pharyngeal ʕ respectively). Several of the letters were ambiguous (i.e. denoted more than one consonant phoneme) when the Phoenician alphabet was borrowed to write Old Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew, but there is no clear evidence of this ...
History of the Arabic alphabet; History of the Hebrew alphabet; History of the Latin script; List of Star Driver characters; Old Italic scripts; Paleo-Hebrew alphabet; Phoenician alphabet; Proto-Sinaitic script; Punic language; R; Rho; Talk:Bible prophecy; Talk:Brahmi script/Archive 1; Talk:History of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system; Talk ...
The history of the Greek alphabet starts with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms in the 9th–8th centuries BC during early Archaic Greece and continues to the present day. The Greek alphabet was developed during the Iron Age , centuries after the loss of Linear B , the syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek until the ...