Proto-Canaanite alphabet
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Proto-Canaanite is the name given to
- (a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan, dating to about the 17th century BC and later.[1]
- (b) a hypothetical ancestor of the Phoenician script before some cut-off date, typically 1050 BC, with an undefined affinity to Proto-Sinaitic.[2] No extant "Phoenician" inscription is older than 1000 BC.[3] The Phoenician, Hebrew, and other Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before that time.[4]