Phoenician Alphabet
The 22-letter ancestor of every alphabet you use today.
The 22-letter ancestor of the Latin alphabet - several modern letters share one sign, exactly as history does.
PHOENICIAN
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The Phoenician alphabet, in use by around 1050 BC, was one of the first widely adopted alphabets and the ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic scripts. Its 22 consonant signs, carried around the Mediterranean by traders, are ultimately why the letters on this page exist.
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