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Proto-Canaanite alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Proto Canaanite alphabet type=Abjad languages= Canaanite languages time=ca. 1400 BC to 1050 BC fam1=Egyptian hieroglyphs fam2=Proto Sinaitic children=Phoenician alphabet Paleo Hebrew alphabet Aramaic alphabet Greek… … Wikipedia
Proto-Semitisches Alphabet — Das proto semitische Alphabet (auch proto sinaitisch) ist vermutlich der gemeinsame Ursprung aller 22 buchstabigen nordwestsemitischen Abjaden. Es wird angenommen, dass es um 1700 v. Chr. unter dem Einfluss der ägyptischen Hieroglyphen auf der… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Proto-Semitic language — Proto Semitic is the hypothetical proto language of the Semitic languages. The earliest attestations of a Semitic language are in Akkadian, dating to ca. the 23rd century BC (see Sargon of Akkad). Early inscriptions in the (pre )Proto Canaanite… … Wikipedia
ALPHABET, HEBREW — The origin of alphabetic script has always been a subject of human curiosity. According to Greek mythology, script was brought to Greece from Phoenicia. This tradition was accepted by the Greek and Roman writers, some of whom developed it even… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
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
Proto-Sinaitic script — A specimen of Proto Sinaitic script containing a phrase which may mean to Ba alat . The line running from the upper left to lower right may read mt l bclt … 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
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
Latin alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Latin alphabet type=Alphabet languages=Latin and Romance languages; most languages of Europe; Romanizations exist for practically all known languages. time= 700 B.C. to the present. fam1=Egyptian hieroglyphs fam2=Proto … Wikipedia
Hebrew alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Hebrew alphabet languages=Hebrew language Jewish language time=3rd century BCE to present type=Abjad typedesc=(sometimes used as an alphabet)Fact|date=October 2008 languages=Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo Arabic… … Wikipedia
