Social:Proto-Canaanite alphabet
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Short description: Writing system
Proto-Canaanite is the name given to
- (a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan, dating to about the 17th century BC and later.[1]
- (b) a hypothetical ancestor of the Phoenician script before some cut-off date, typically 1050 BC, with an undefined affinity to Proto-Sinaitic.[2] No extant "Phoenician" inscription is older than 1000 BC.[3] The Phoenician, Hebrew, and other Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before that time.[4]
See also
- Canaanite languages
- Deir Alla
References
- ↑ Woodard, Roger (2008), The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, p. 4, ISBN 9781139469340, https://books.google.com/books?id=vTrT-bZyuPcC&pg=PA4.
- ↑ Coulmas, Florian (1996). The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-21481-X.
- ↑ Hoffman, Joel M. (2004). In the beginning : a short history of the Hebrew language. New York, NY [u.a.]: New York Univ. Press. pp. 23. ISBN 978-0-8147-3654-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=Pj0TCgAAQBAJ&q=canaanite&pg=PA167. Retrieved 23 May 2017. "By 1000 B.C.E., however, we see Phoenician writings [..]"
- ↑ .
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