The Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1050 BC, was a non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, or abjad. It was used for the writing of Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language, used by the civilization of Phoenicia. It has been classified as an abjad because it records only consonant sounds, with the addition of matres lectionis for some vowels. (One of its descendants, the Greek alphabet, revamped some letters to more consistently represent vowels.)
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Phoenician Alphabet: Language, Writing, Alphabets Reveal Cultural Continuity in the Near East
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Phoenician and Phonetic I think actually come from the same root, linguistically. 'Cause they did invent the phonetic alphabet. #tmh
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