Phoenician alphabet
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title:
Phoenician alphabet
text:
The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. It was the first alphabet ever developed, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. In the history of writing systems, the Phoenician script also marked the first to have a fixed writing direction—while previous systems were multi-directional, Phoenician was written horizontally, from right to left. It developed directly fr
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Writing system used c. 1050 to 150 BC
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
date created:
2002-08-09T12:56:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T16:23:21Z
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