Encyclopedia > Phoenician alphabet

Article Content

Phoenician alphabet

The Phoenician alphabet dates from the third millennium BC and was based on the North Semitic alphabet. The chart below shows the alphabet with its nearest equivalents in the Roman alphabet.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Lake Ronkonkoma, New York

... density of 546.4/km² (1,414.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 93.53% White, 1.36% African American, 0.15% Native American, 2.41% Asian, 0.03% Pacific ...