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Proto Canaanite alphabet

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Proto-Canaanite is the name given to

(a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan. (b) the early Phoenician script before some cut-off date, typically 1050 BCE. The Phoenician, Hebrew, and other Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before that time. (c) a hypothetical ancestor of the Phoenician script, with an undefined affinity to Proto-Sinaitic.

In the case of (c), Proto-Canaanite is generally assumed to have been pictographic, but no such script is attested, and illustrations of it are modern inventions.

References

Proto-Canaanite alphabet Wikipedia


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