Proto-Canaanite alphabet
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Proto-Canaanite is the name given to
- (a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan.[1]
- (b) the early Phoenician script before some cut-off date, typically 1050 BCE. The Phoenician, Hebrew, and other Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before that time.[2]
- (c) a hypothetical ancestor of the Phoenician script, with an undefined affinity to Proto-Sinaitic.[3]
In the case of (c), Proto-Canaanite is generally assumed to have been pictographic, but no such script is attested, and illustrations of it are modern inventions.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Roger Woodard, 2008. The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia
- ^ Joseph Naveh, 1987. "Proto-Canaanite, Archaic Greek, and the Script of the Aramaic Text on the Tell Fakhariyah Statue". In Miller et al. ed., Ancient Israelite Religion.
- ^ Coulmas, Florian (1996). The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-631-21481-X.
- ^ "How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs". Biblical Archaeology Review, Mar/Apr 2010
