Phoenician alphabet

The Phoenician alphabet is a continuation of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, by convention taken to begin with a cut-off date of 1050 BC. It was used by the Phoenicians to write Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language. Phoenician is a pure abjad, meaning that it is a writing system made up of letters that represent the consonants of the language. While some subsequent offshoots of the script were true alphabets that represented all sounds of the language, the Phoenician alphabet lacks any symbols for vowels.
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