Phoenician alphabet

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The Phoenician alphabet is an ancient consonantal writing system developed by the Phoenician civilization that became the ancestor of most major modern alphabets, including Greek, Latin, and Arabic.

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Generate an image of the Phoenician alphabet (The Phoenician alphabet is an ancient consonantal writing system developed by the Phoenician civilization that became the ancestor of most major modern alphabets, including Greek, Latin, and Arabic.)

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northwest Semitic script ⓘ
abjad ⓘ
ancient script ⓘ
consonantal writing system ⓘ
ancestorOf Arabic alphabet ⓘ
Aramaic alphabet ⓘ
Etruscan alphabet ⓘ
Greek alphabet ⓘ
Hebrew alphabet ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ
Nabataean alphabet ⓘ
Old Italic scripts ⓘ
linked to: Old Italic script

Paleo-Hebrew alphabet ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet

Punic script ⓘ
Syriac alphabet ⓘ
containsVowelLetters no ⓘ
derivedFrom Proto-Canaanite script ⓘ
developedBy Phoenician civilization ⓘ
directionality right-to-left script ⓘ
influenced development of alphabetic writing ⓘ
ISO15924Code Phnx ⓘ
notableInscriptionSites Byblos ⓘ
Sidon ⓘ
Tyre ⓘ
numberOfLetters 22 ⓘ
primaryUse recording Phoenician language ⓘ
region Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
Levant ⓘ
relatedTo Proto-Sinaitic script ⓘ
Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ
scriptCode Phnx ⓘ
scriptFamily Northwest Semitic ⓘ
Semitic ⓘ
standardOrder abjad order ⓘ
timePeriod early 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
late 2nd millennium BCE ⓘ
unicodeBlock Phoenician ⓘ
usedBy Phoenicians ⓘ
usedFor religious inscriptions ⓘ
royal inscriptions ⓘ
trade records ⓘ
vocalizationMethod implied vowels ⓘ
writingDirection right-to-left ⓘ
writingMedium ostraca ⓘ
papyrus ⓘ
stone inscriptions ⓘ
writingSystemClass alphabetic ⓘ
writingSystemType consonantal ⓘ

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Latin alphabet → ultimatelyDerivedFrom → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Old Italic script → derivedFrom → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Hebrew → writingSystemDevelopedFrom → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Phoenician alphabet → ancestorOf → Paleo-Hebrew alphabet ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Phoenician civilization → hasWritingSystem → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Semitic languages → hasWritingSystem → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Hebrew alphabet → relatedTo → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Alpha → derivedFrom → Phoenician letter aleph ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Greek alphabet → derivedFrom → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Moabite → writingSystem → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Northwest Semitic → writingSystem → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Northwest Semitic → writingSystem → Phoenician script ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Pyrgi Tablets → writingSystem → Phoenician script ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Edomite → writingSystem → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Proto-Canaanite script → ancestorOf → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Proto-Canaanite script → developedInto → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Nabataean alphabet → derivedFrom → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Nabataean alphabet → scriptFamily → Phoenician script family ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Punic script → subclassOf → Phoenician script ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Punic script → derivedFrom → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Punic script → developedFrom → Phoenician script ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Punic script → unicodeBlock → Phoenician ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Punic script → sharesOriginWith → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Byblos → knownFor → Phoenician script ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Etruscan alphabet → parentSystem → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Ammonite → writingSystem → Phoenician script ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Aramaic alphabet → derivedFrom → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
subject linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Aramaic alphabet → relatedTo → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
subject linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Ugaritic alphabet → relatedTo → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Phoenician language → writingSystem → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
East Syriac script → parentSystem → Phoenician script ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Egyptian hieroglyphs → influenced → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Canaanites → writingSystem → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Ayin → hasLineage → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Ayin → hasLineage → Paleo-Hebrew alphabet ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Moabites → scriptUsed → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Moab → scriptFamily → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Samaritan script → relatedTo → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Khirbet al-Mudayna inscriptions → script → Phoenician script ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions → influenced → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
South Arabian script → relatedTo → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Ammonite language → writingSystem → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
subject linked to: Kingdom of Ammon
Euboean Greek alphabet → influencedBy → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Mediterranean alphabet → hasOrigin → Phoenician script ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Mediterranean alphabet → evolvedFrom → Phoenician script ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
Mediterranean alphabet → relatedTo → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Palmyrene alphabet → relatedTo → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Syriac alphabet → relatedTo → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Punic people → usedScript → Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
subject linked to: Punic (Carthaginian) people
Canaanite languages → writingSystem → Canaanite alphabet ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet