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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 alphabet — noun Usage: usually capitalized P 1. : an extinct northern Semitic alphabet used by the Phoenicians of Syria and their Carthaginian colonists from the 13th century B.C. and the immediate ancestor of the Greek alphabet 2. : the ancestor of the… … Useful english dictionary
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
alphabet — An alphabet was in use in the cities of Palestine by 1200 BCE, including the Hebrew alphabet used in Israel and Judah. It was easier for traders than Egyptian hieroglyphs and Babylonian cuneiform scripts, which were pictorial signs. The stele… … Dictionary of the Bible
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Alphabet Étrusque — Wikipédia … Wikipédia en Français
