Proto-Canaanite script

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Proto-Canaanite script is an early Northwest Semitic writing system that represents one of the first true alphabets and the ancestor of the Phoenician and many later alphabetic scripts.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Northwest Semitic script
alphabet
consonantal alphabet
writing system
alsoKnownAs Early Canaanite script
Proto-Sinaitic-derived Canaanite script
ancestorOf Arabic script
Aramaic alphabet
Greek alphabet
Hebrew alphabet
Latin alphabet
Paleo-Hebrew script
linked to: Hebrew alphabet

Phoenician alphabet
derivedFrom Egyptian hieroglyphs
developedFrom Egyptian hieroglyphs
developedInto Paleo-Hebrew script
linked to: Hebrew alphabet

Phoenician alphabet
endTime circa 10th century BCE
circa 11th century BCE
graphemeInventory consonant signs only
historicalSignificance ancestor of most modern alphabetic scripts
one of the earliest true alphabets
influenced Old Italic scripts
linked to: Old Italic script

South Arabian script
runic alphabet
linked to: Runic alphabet
mainUsage inscriptions
notableInscription Lachish ewer inscription
Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions
Wadi el-Hol inscriptions
numberOfLetters approximately 22
phonographicType segmental
region Canaan
Levant
linked to: Levant region
scriptType consonantal
startTime circa 18th century BCE
circa 19th century BCE
subclassOf abjad
timePeriod Late Bronze Age
late Middle Bronze Age
unicodeStatus not encoded as a separate script in Unicode
usedFor Canaanite languages
linked to: Northwest Semitic

early Northwest Semitic languages
writingDirection right-to-left
writingSystemFamily Northwest Semitic
writingSystemStage early form of Phoenician alphabet

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Referenced by (22)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Phoenician alphabet derivedFrom Proto-Canaanite script
Phoenician alphabet relatedTo Proto-Sinaitic script
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Proto-Canaanite script alsoKnownAs Early Canaanite script
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Proto-Canaanite script alsoKnownAs Proto-Sinaitic-derived Canaanite script
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Ugaritic alphabet relatedTo Proto-Canaanite alphabet
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Egyptian hieroglyphs influenced Proto-Sinaitic script
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Aleph originatesFrom Proto-Canaanite aleph
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Canaanites writingSystem Proto-Canaanite script
Ayin hasLineage Proto-Canaanite script
Canaanite shift appliesTo Proto-Canaanite
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions writingSystem Proto-Sinaitic script
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Lachish ewer inscription writingSystem Proto-Canaanite script
Lachish ewer inscription scriptStage Proto-Canaanite
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Wadi el-Hol inscriptions writingSystem Proto-Sinaitic script
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Wadi el-Hol inscriptions writingSystem Proto-Canaanite script
South Arabian script derivedFrom Proto-Sinaitic script
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Proto-Canaanite language associatedWith Proto-Canaanite alphabet
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Proto-Canaanite language writingSystem Proto-Canaanite alphabet
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Proto-Canaanite language developedFrom Proto-Sinaitic script
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Serabit el-Khadim hasInscriptionType Proto-Sinaitic script
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin writingSystem Proto-Sinaitic script
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin scriptFamily Proto-Canaanite scripts
linked to: Proto-Canaanite script