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abjad found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions across the Mediterranean from the 11th–2nd centuries BCE
The Phoenician script was an ancient writing system used by Canaanite and Aramaic speakers across the Mediterranean region between the 11th and 2nd centuries BCE. It was an abjad, meaning it represented consonants but not vowels, and served as a practical writing tool for peoples engaged in trade and communication across a vast geographic area during this historical period.
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Described at
L’Alphabet phénicien - Memory of the World
L’invention de l’Alphabet phénicien, prototype de tous les alphabets au monde, est l’apport le plus heureux que ce pays ait put léguer à l’Humanité toute entière. Ce nouveau système, aussitôt adopté par toutes les nations, ne cesse de gagner du terrain dans tous les domaines des sciences humaines, religieuses furent-elles, scientifiques ou culturelles, et sans l’Alphabet, au dire d’un penseur libanais, on ne serait pas arrivé aux inventions numériques d’aujourd’hui.
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- Instance of
- abjad
- Country
- Phoenicia
- Based on
- Proto-Sinaitic
- Image
- Gezer calendar close up.jpg
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- Commons gallery
- Phoenician alphabet
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- start time
- 1200-00-00
- end time
- 0150-00-00
- language of work or name
- Punic
- topic's main category
- Category:Phoenician alphabet
- Commons category
- Phoenician script
- script directionality
- right-to-left
- Unicode range
- U+10900-1091F
- time of earliest written record
- 0840-00-00
- name
- phénicien
- inception
- 1050-00-00
- derivative work
- Greek alphabet
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- heritage designation
- Memory of the World International Register
- described at URL
- www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/phoenician-alphabet
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