Phoenician alphabet

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• Phoenician alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Phoenician alphabet type=Abjad languages=Phoenician time=Began 1050 BC, and gradually died out during the Hellenistic period as its evolved forms replaced it fam1=Egyptian hieroglyphs fam2=Proto Sinaitic fam3=Proto… …   Wikipedia

• Phoenician alphabet —       writing system that developed out of the North Semitic alphabet and was spread over the Mediterranean area by Phoenician traders. It is the probable ancestor of the Greek alphabet and, hence, of all Western alphabets. The earliest… …   Universalium

• Phoenician language — Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal region then called Pūt in Ancient Egyptian, Canaan in Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic, and Phoenicia in Greek and Latin. Phoenician is a Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup; its… …   Wikipedia

• Phoenician — may refer to: *Phoenicia, the ancient civilization *Phoenician alphabet *Phoenician languagePhoenician may also be: *A native or resident of Phoenix, Arizona ee also*Phoenix (mythology) …   Wikipedia

• alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… …   Universalium

• Alphabet — [ William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia .] An alphabet is a standardized set of letters mdash basic written symbolsmdash each of which roughly represents a phoneme, a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in… …   Wikipedia

• Phoenician — /fi nish euhn, nee sheuhn/, n. 1. a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia. 2. the extinct Semitic language of the Phoenicians. adj. 3. of or pertaining to Phoenicia, its people, or their language. 4. noting or pertaining to the script used for the… …   Universalium

• Phoenician language —       a Semitic language (Semitic languages) of the Northern Central (often called Northwestern) group, spoken in ancient times on the coast of Syria and Palestine in Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and neighbouring towns and in other areas of the… …   Universalium



• Alphabet étrusque — Étrusque Inscriptions étrusques sur la tête d une statue Caractéristiques Type Alphabet Langue(s) …   Wikipédia en Français

• History of the Greek alphabet — The History of the Greek alphabet starts with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms and continues to the present day. This article concentrates on the early period, before the codification of the now standard Greek alphabet. The Phoenician… …   Wikipedia