Home›Abjads›Unicode Status›EncodedBrowse ByEncodedFactsEncodedSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra Of EmergenceWell-attested1840 BCE 1EncodedFilter Results10 entriesScript TypeAllAbjad (10)DirectionalityAllBoustrophedon (1)Right-to-left (8)Top-to-bottom, vertical columns left-to-right (1)Origin Period Start YearAll-1050 (1)-800 (1)-600 (1)-300 (1)1 (1)100 (1)250 (1)400 (2)700 (1)Script Family (Lineage)AllAramaic Alphabet (5)Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1)Pahlavi Scripts (1)Sogdian Script (1)Syriac Alphabet (1)Script StatusAllExtinct (6)Historical or Liturgical Use Only (2)Living (in Current Use) (2)Language(s) WrittenAllArabic (1)Avestan (1)Azerbaijani (1)Balochi (1)Egyptian Arabic (1)Hausa (1)Hebrew (2)Iranian Persian (1)Kashmiri (1)Kurdish (1)Levantine Arabic (1)Malay (1)Meroitic (1)Middle Persian (1)Old Uyghur (4)Pashto (1)Sindhi (1)Sogdian (3)Sudanese Arabic (1)Swahili (1)Syriac (1)Tamasheq language (1)Urdu (1)Western Punjabi (1)Zarma (1)Region of OriginAllCentral Asia (1)Iran (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 10Ancient South Arabian ScriptEncodedArabic ScriptEncodedAvestan AlphabetEncodedHebrew Square ScriptEncodedManichaean AlphabetEncodedMeroitic ScriptEncodedOld Uyghur AlphabetEncodedPhoenician ScriptEncodedSogdian ScriptEncodedSyriac AlphabetEncodedSources1. Wikipedia: AlphabetWikimedia FoundationHistory, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabets (Proto-Sinaitic, the Phoenician abjad's own ancestor)Quote, History, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabets (Proto-Sinaitic, the Phoenician abjad's own ancestor)In the Middle Bronze Age, an apparently alphabetic system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script appeared in Egyptian turquoise mines in the Sinai Peninsula c. 1840 BC, apparently left by Canaanite workers.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.