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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 ...
The Phoenician alphabet is one of the oldest verified consonantal alphabet, or abjad. [6] It has become conventional to refer to the script as "Proto-Canaanite" until the mid-11th century BC, when it is first attested on inscribed bronze arrowheads , and as "Phoenician" only after 1050 BC. [ 7 ]
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [3] [4] It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [5] and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.
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 Late ...
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 ...
Classical Latin alphabet. After the Roman conquest of Greece in the 1st century BC, Latin adopted the Greek letters Y and Z (or readopted, in the latter case) to write Greek loanwords, placing them at the end of the alphabet. An attempt by the emperor Claudius to introduce three additional letters did not last.
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 ...
Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician yōd 𐤉, Hebrew yudי , Aramaic yod 𐡉, Syriac yōḏ ܝ, and Arabic yāʾي . Its sound value is / j / in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel, representing / iː /. [citation needed]