Phoenician alphabet

Previous written pictographic languages and syllabaries attempted to create graphemes for spoken language, but failed at being efficient. The Phoenicians, in contact with many different cultures, developed the world’s first alphabet, a written code where each symbol represents a sound, not a syllable or word. Alphabets were categorically more efficient than past systems, and today the vast majority of languages utilize an alphabetic script. (~2000 BC; Tyre, Phoenicia)

The very alphabet you are using at this moment is one which is derived from the Proto-Canaanite/Phoenician alphabet. Much of the knowledge the Greeks used to build their great civilization was based on knowledge passed on to them by Middle Easterners.

The Hebrew Alephbet it's symbols and letter values.

Aramaic (ארמית, Arāmît): The Aramaic alphabet was adaptaed from the Phoenician alphabet during the 8th century BC and was used to write the Aramaic language until about 600 AD. The Aramaic alphabet was adapted to write quite a few other languages, and developed into a number of new alphabets, including the Hebrew square script and cursive script, Nabataean, Syriac, Palmyrenean, Mandaic, Sogdian, Mongolian and probably the Old Turkic script. (...)

Ancient Alphabets

To me Phoenicians look like the start of the alphabet. But still have the symbol look of ideographs.1550 BC to 300 BC.

Phoenician stele from Nora in Sardinia, 9th c. BC with references to the god Pumay and the island of Sardinia, as well as mentions of metal refining, solidly placing the island within the Phoenician network.

The oldest form of the runic alphabet. From around 8th century in Germanic areas of Europe. Stems from the Phoenician alphabet.

Phoenician Alphabet

Phoenician Alphabet

Phoenician alphabet. Approx 500 BC.

Ancient Phoenicia: Educational resource on the Phoenician language, their Writing and Alphabet, their Numeral system

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this diagram displays several evolutionary steps of western Alphabets. An alphabet is a set of visual symbols of characters used to represent the elementary sounds of a spoken language.

Phoenician Alphabet is consist of 20 consonants and 2 vowels. There are similar sounds which looks alike in this alphabet. Basically it is the basis of Arabic alphabet and sounds. The alphabet firs…

Download this stock image: A pictogram is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt. It combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters. The Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1050 BC, is the oldest verified alphabet. The Phoenician alphabet is…

Phoenician was a Northern Semitic language that was spoken around the Mediterranean until about the 2nd century AD.