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Noun Concept
Categories: Canaanite writing systems, Phoenician alphabet, Right-to-left writing systems, Phoenician language, 11th-century BC establishments
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Phoenician alphabet  Phoenician  Canaanite alphabet  Canaanite script  ISO 15924:Phnx
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The Phoenician alphabet is an alphabet known in modern times from the Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. Wikipedia
English:
script
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The Phoenician alphabet is an alphabet known in modern times from the Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. Wikipedia
Non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, or abjad. Oldest verified alphabet Wikidata
IS A
unicase
abjad
HAS PART
yodh
𐤀
𐤁
𐤅
𐤄
+17 relations
BASED ON
Proto-Sinaitic script
COUNTRY
Phoenician
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
HERITAGE DESIGNATION
Memory of the World
LANGUAGE OF WORK OR NAME
Canaanitic
Phoenician
Punic
Philistine language
MEMBER OF
Memory of the World
SCRIPT DIRECTIONALITY
right-to-left
Wikipedia
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Phoenician alphabet
Wikidata
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Phoenician
Wikipedia Redirections
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Canaanite alphabet, Canaanite script, ISO 15924:Phnx, Northwest Semitic abjad, Paleo Hebrew, Phnx (script), Phoenecian alphabet, Phoenician (script), Phoenician abjad, Phoenician Alphabet, Phoenician characters, Phoenician numerals, Phoenician script, Phoenician writing, Phoenician writing system, Phœnician Alphabet, Proto-Hebrew, Punic alphabet, Punic script, Semitic script, Semitic scripts, West Semitic alphabet, 𐤖, 𐤗, 𐤘, 𐤙, 𐤚, 𐤛, 𐤜, 𐤝, 𐤞
Wikidata Alias
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Phoenician alphabet

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