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Alphabets:
Although the Phoenicians used cuneiform (Mesopotamian writing) in what we call Ugaritic, they also produced a script of their own. The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century B.C. phoenicia.org/ The Phoenician script is an important "trunk" in the alphabet tree, in that many modern scripts can be traced through it. www.ancientscripts.com/ The Phoenician alphabet developed from the proto-Canaanite alphabet, which was created sometime between the 18th and 17th centuries BC. www.omniglot.com/ |