Phoenician language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_languageThe oldest testimony documenting words in the Phoenician language (actually of Sidon), is probably from the Late Bronze Age. The Book of Deuteronomy (3, 9) reads: "the Sidonians call – Hermon – Sirion". In other words: Mount Hermon was called "Sirion", in the Phoenician language of Sidon. The Phoenicians were the first state-level society to make extensive use of the
Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabetThe Phoenician alphabet is an alphabet (more specifically, an abjad) known in modern times from the Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. The name comes from the Phoenician civilization. The Phoenician alphabet is also called the Early Linear script (in a … Näytä lisääOriginThe earliest known alphabetic (or "proto-alphabetic") inscriptions are the so-called Proto-Sinaitic (or Proto-Canaanite)… Näytä lisääPhoenician used a system of acrophony to name letters: a word was chosen with each initial consonant sound, and became the name of the… Näytä lisääPhoenician is well prolific in terms of writing systems derived from it, as many of the writing systems in use today can ultimately trace their descent to it, and consequently Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian scripts… Näytä lisää• Ancient Scripts.com (Phoenician)• Omniglot.com (Phoenician alphabet)• official Unicode standards document for Phoenician (PDF file) Näytä lisääThe chart shows the graphical evolution of Phoenician letter forms into other alphabets. The sound values also changed … Näytä lisääThe Phoenician numeral system consisted of separate symbols for 1, 10, 20, and 100. The sign for 1 was a simple vertical stroke (𐤖). Other … Näytä lisää• Phoenicia portal• Writing portal• History of writing• Ugaritic alphabet Näytä lisää