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Phoenician alphabet
Type Abjad
Spoken languages Phoenician
Time period Began 1050 BC, and gradually died out as its evolved forms replaced it
Parent systems Egyptian hieroglyphs
→ Proto-Sinaitic
→ Proto-Canaanite alphabet
→ Phoenician alphabet
Child systems Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
Aramaic alphabet
Greek alphabet
Many hypothesized others
Sister systems South Arabian alphabet
Unicode range U+10900 to U+1091F
ISO 15924 Phnx
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.
History of the alphabet

Middle Bronze Age 19th c. BCE

* Ugaritic 15th c. BCE
* Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BCE
o Phoenician 11th c. BCE
+ Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE
# Samaritan 6th c. BCE
+ Aramaic 8th c. BCE
# Brāhmī & Indic 6th c. BCE
* Tibetan 7th c."