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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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