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    The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30-40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim...
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  • Proto-Canaanite is the name given to the (a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan, dating to about the 17th century BC and later. (b) a hypothetical...
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  • Thumbnail for Serabit el-Khadim proto-Sinaitic inscriptions
    The Serabit el-Khadim proto-Sinaitic inscriptions are about 30 early alphabetic inscriptions in proto-Sinaitic script found at or in the vicinity of Serabit...
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  • horizontally, from right to left. It developed directly from the Proto-Sinaitic script used during the Late Bronze Age, which was derived in turn from...
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    scholars, who also believe that these scripts are descendants of the Proto-Sinaitic script. Paleo-Hebrew script was used by the ancient Israelites, both...
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    Alphabet (redirect from Alphabetic script)
    used to transcribe foreign words. The first fully phonemic script was the Proto-Sinaitic script, also descending from Egyptian hieroglyphs, which was later...
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  • Sinaitic script could refer to: Nabataean script, the script previously known as Sinaitic as most examples were found in the Sinai Proto-Sinaitic script...
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  • alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today ultimately go back to this Semitic script. Its first origins can be traced back to a Proto-Sinaitic script developed...
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  • immediate predecessor script Proto-Canaanite (Late Proto-Sinaitic) during the 13th to 12th centuries BCE, and earlier Proto-Sinaitic scripts. The earliest known...
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  • Writing system (redirect from Script system)
    Most of the world's alphabets either descend directly from this Proto-Sinaitic script, or were directly inspired by its design. Descendants include the...
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    Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 ms3nd; modern Arabic: الْمُسْنَد musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late...
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    The South Semitic scripts are a family of alphabets that had split from Proto-Sinaitic script by the 10th century BC. The family has two main branches:...
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  • voiced alveolar plosive ([d]). The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called dalt "door" (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately...
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  • was connected to the Proto-Sinaitic script, and which was transmitted across the Mediterranean and used to develop the Arabic script and Greek alphabet...
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    correct identification of the character of the Proto-Sinaitic script, the ancestor of almost all alphabetic scripts. Petrie developed the system of dating layers...
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    considered Nabataean were found in Sinai, and another 4,000 – 7,000 such Sinaitic inscriptions remain unpublished. Prior to the publication of Nabataean...
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    There are various styles of the Modi script associated with a particular era. Many changes occurred in each era The proto-Modi, or ādyakālīn (आद्यकालीन) style...
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    The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the...
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    some have suggested that Ugaritic represents some form of the Proto-Sinaitic script, the letter forms distorted as an adaptation to writing on clay...
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    India that appeared as a fully developed script in the 3rd century BCE. Its descendants, the Brahmic scripts, continue to be used today across South and...
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    that the Phoenician script evolved from the Harappan script, and not, as the classical theory suggests from the Proto-Sinaitic script. He compared it to...
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    craftsman god Kothar-wa-Khasis, not El. In an inscription in the Proto-Sinaitic script, William F. Albright transcribed the phrase ʾL Ḏ ʿLM, which he translated...
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    the ancestor of aleph may have been a pictogram of an ox head in proto-Sinaitic script influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphs, styled as a triangular head...
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    cognate with those of Phoenician, and may thus be assumed for the Proto-Sinaitic script. Two writing systems were used to write the Geʽez language: an abjad...
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    Retrieved June 24, 2024. LeBlanc, Paul (2017). Deciphering the Proto-Sinaitic Script: Making Sense of the Wadi El-Hol and Serabit El-Khadim Early Alphabetic...
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  • Thumbnail for Bengali–Assamese script
    "In the northeast, the local derivative of Siddhamatrka was the script known as Proto-Bengali or Gaudi, which was current from the tenth to the fourteenth...
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    Mongolian script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of text in Mongolian script. The traditional...
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  • Thumbnail for Egyptian hieroglyphs
    later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic script that later evolved into the Phoenician...
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    display the uncommon Unicode characters in this article correctly. The Cham script (Cham: ꨀꨇꩉ ꨌꩌ)is a Brahmic abugida used to write Cham, an Austronesian language...
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    Tifinagh (redirect from Tifinagh script)
    ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ; Berber Latin alphabet: Tifinaɣ; Berber pronunciation: [tifinaɣ]) is a script used to write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is descended from the ancient...
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