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Proto-Canaanite_alphabet
Proto-Canaanite alphabet
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Proper noun
Proto-Canaanite alphabet (uncountable)
- 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.