Definify.com

Definition 2024


Proto-Canaanite_alphabet

Proto-Canaanite alphabet

English

Proper noun

Proto-Canaanite alphabet (uncountable)

  1. An abjad of twenty-plus acrophonic glyphs, found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age (from ca. the 15th century BCE), by convention taken to last until a cut-off date of 1050 BCE, after which it is called Phoenician.