Significats de phoenician alphabet en anglès

As already mentioned, the twenty-two symbols of the Phoenician alphabet indicate consonantal sounds only.

These characters received new names, and became the Phoenician alphabet.

The w was also added to the Phoenician alphabet.

The Phoenician Alphabet and Inscriptions.-3, The Greek Alphabet.

The Phoenician alphabet and Arabian numerals are capital borrowed and yielding how enormous a usufruct!

They accepted the industrial arts of the eastern Mediterranean, adopted the Phoenician alphabet, and emulated the Phoenician merchant.

The Phoenician Alphabet and Inscriptions.-3.

This letter of ours corresponds to the first symbol in the Phoenician alphabet and in almost all its descendants.

Written first in a prae- Phoenician script, it continued to be written in the Greek adaptation of the Phoenician alphabet.

Certainly all did not learn their forms from an independent Phoenician alphabet, unknown to them before it was selected.

The Phoenician alphabet possessed many more aspirates than were required in Greek, which tended more and more to drop all its aspirates.

The Phoenician alphabet forms the basis of the Semitic and Indo-European graphic systems, and was itself doubtless based on the Egyptian hieratic writing.

The resemblances between some Egyptian symbols and some symbols of the Phoenician alphabet are striking; in other cases the differences are no less remarkable.

Egyptologists are at variance on the question whether this alphabet was the original, or had any influence upon the development of the Phoenician alphabet.

The Greeks converted the Phoenician alphabet, which was partly consonantal, into one purely phonetic-" aperfectinstrument for the expression of spoken language."