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The Phoenician alphabet continued to be used by the Samaritans and developed into the Samaritan alphabet, that is an immediate continuation of the Phoenician script without intermediate non-Israelite evolutionary stages. The Samaritans have continued to use the script for writing both Hebrew and Aramaic texts until the present day.
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.
Historically, it represented either a pharyngealized /sˤ/ or an affricate such as the modern Hebrew pronunciation or the Ge’ez ; [3] which became in Ashkenazi pronunciation. A geresh can also be placed after tsade ( צ׳ ; ץ׳ ), giving it the sound [ t͡ʃ ] (or, in a hypercorrected pronunciation, a pharyngealized [ ʃˤ ] ), e.g. צִ ...
Samekh or samech is the fifteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵ ס , Aramaic samek 𐡎, and Syriac semkaṯ ܣ. Samekh represents a voiceless alveolar fricative /s/. In the Hebrew language, the samekh has the same pronunciation as the left-dotted shin. The numerical value of samekh is 60.
When a word in modern Hebrew borrowed from another language ends with /p/, the non-final form is used (e.g. ּפִילִיפ /ˈfilip/ "Philip"), while borrowings ending in /f/ still use the Pe Sofit (e.g. כֵּיף /kef/ "fun", from Arabic). This is because native Hebrew words, which always use the final form at the end, cannot end in /p/.
Samaritan is a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, which was a variety of the Phoenician alphabet.Paleo-Hebrew is the alphabet in which large parts of the Hebrew Bible were originally penned according to the consensus of most scholars, who also believe that these scripts are descendants of the Proto-Sinaitic script.
[10] [11] [12] The 15 cm x 16.5 cm (5.9 in x 6.5 in) trapezoid pottery sherd has five lines of text written in ink written in the Proto-Canaanite alphabet (the old form of the Phoenician alphabet). [10] [13] That the language of the tablet is Hebrew is suggested by the presence of the words תעש tʕś "to do" and עבד ʕbd "servant".
He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician hē 𐤄, Hebrew hē ה , Aramaic hē 𐡄, Syriac hē ܗ, and Arabic hāʾ ه . Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative ([h]).