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the history of writing systems, the Phoenician script also marked the first to have a fixed writing direction—while previous systems were multi-directional...

written, is attested as far back as the 19th century BC. The Phoenician writing system was adapted from the Proto-Canaanite script sometime before the...

This article contains Phoenician characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, empty boxes, or other symbols instead of the...

roots in Phoenician or Ugaritic. "Abjad" is the word for alphabet in Arabic, Malay and Indonesian. An abugida is an alphabetic writing system whose basic...

alphabet, which gave rise to the alphabetic orders of the reduced Phoenician writing system and its descendants, including the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew...

Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their culture...

rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according...

hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic script that later evolved into the Phoenician alphabet. Through the Phoenician alphabet's major child systems (the...

African writing system is ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. These developed later into forms known as Hieratic, Demotic and, through Phoenician and Greek...

two letters of the Phoenician alphabet: aleph, the word for ox, and bet, the word for house. The Ancient Egyptian writing system had a set of some 24...

The earliest known examples of Paleo-Hebrew writing date to the 10th century BCE. Like the Phoenician alphabet, it is a slight regional variant and...

This article contains Phoenician characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, empty boxes, or other symbols instead of the...

the Aramaic alphabet for writing Hebrew. Formerly, Hebrew had been written using an alphabet closer in form to that of Phoenician, the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet...

Japanese phonetically before the invention of kana. Phoenician gave rise to a number of new writing systems, including the widely used Aramaic abjad and the...

of multiple writing systems across the Middle East, Europe, northern Africa, and Pakistan, mainly through Ancient South Arabian, Phoenician and the closely...

of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures...

short, making it difficult to judge whether or not they constituted a writing system used to record a Harappan language, any of which are yet to be identified...

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...

Proto-writing consists of visible marks communicating limited information. Such systems emerged from earlier traditions of symbol systems in the early...

earliest trace of alphabetic writing and the common ancestor of both the Ancient South Arabian script and the Phoenician alphabet, which led to many modern...