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# Phoenician Alphabet
## Overview
The Phoenician alphabet (~1050 BCE) was the first widely-used phonetic alphabet, consisting of 22 consonant letters. It is the ancestor of virtually all modern alphabets including Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew.
The Phoenician alphabet (~1050 BCE) was the first widely-used phonetic alphabet, consisting of 22 consonant letters. It is the ancestor of virtually all modern alphabets including Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew. @t[~1050 BCE]
## Key Facts
- Origin: Phoenicia (modern Lebanon), ~1050 BCE
- Origin: Phoenicia (modern Lebanon), ~1050 BCE @t[~1050 BCE]
- Type: Abjad (consonantal alphabet, no vowels)
- Number of letters: 22
- Direction: Right to left
- Derived from: Proto-Sinaitic/Proto-Canaanite script (~1800 BCE) [^1]
- Derived from: Proto-Sinaitic/Proto-Canaanite script (~1800 BCE) @t[~1800 BCE] [^1]
## Descendants
- Greek alphabet (~800 BCE): Added vowels, adapted letter forms
- Greek alphabet (~800 BCE): Added vowels, adapted letter forms @t[~800 BCE]
- Aramaic alphabet: Ancestor of Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and many Asian scripts
- Latin alphabet (via Greek and Etruscan): Used by most of the modern world
- South Arabian script: Ancestor of Ethiopic (Ge'ez) [^2]