Home›Alphabets›Unicode Status›EncodedBrowse ByEncodedFactsEncodedSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra Of EmergenceWell-attested1840 BCE 1EncodedFilter Results17 entriesScript TypeAllAlphabet (17)DirectionalityAllBottom-to-top (1)Boustrophedon (1)Left-to-right (11)Right-to-left (3)Top-to-bottom, vertical columns left-to-right (1)Variable (2)Origin Period Start YearAll-800 (2)-700 (2)-300 (1)100 (1)150 (1)400 (1)405 (1)430 (1)701 (1)862 (1)893 (1)1200 (1)1443 (1)1918 (1)1949 (1)Script Family (Lineage)AllGreek Script (5)Latin Script (1)Libyco-Berber Alphabet (1)Old Italic Script (1)Old Uyghur Alphabet (1)Phoenician Script (1)Runic Alphabet (Elder Futhark) (1)Sogdian Script (1)Script StatusAllExtinct (5)Historical or Liturgical Use Only (2)Living (in Current Use) (10)Language(s) WrittenAllAkan (1)Albanian (1)Ancient Greek (1)Armenian (1)Aymara (1)Azerbaijani (1)Bambara (1)Basque (1)Belarusian (1)Berber Languages (1)Bosnian (1)Bulgarian (1)Catalan (1)Cebuano (1)Cherokee (1)Chichewa (1)Coptic (1)Croatian (1)Czech (1)Danish (1)Dinka language (1)Dutch (1)Enga (1)English (1)Estonian (1)Etruscan (1)Evenki (1)Ewe (1)Faroese (1)Fijian (1)Finnish (1)Fon (1)French (1)Fula (1)Georgian (1)German (1)Greek (1)Greenlandic (1)Guarani (1)Haitian Creole (1)Hausa (1)Hawaiian (1)Hiligaynon (1)Hopi (1)Hungarian (1)Icelandic (1)Igbo (1)Ilocano (1)Indonesian (1)Inuktitut (1)Irish (2)Italian (1)Kashmiri (1)Kazakh (1)Khoekhoe (1)Kikuyu language (1)Kinyarwanda (1)Kirundi (1)Korean (1)Kurdish (1)Kyrgyz (1)Latin (2)Latvian (1)Levantine Arabic (1)Lithuanian (1)Luxembourgish (1)Macedonian (1)Malagasy (1)Malay (1)Maltese (1)Mandarin Chinese (1)Maori (1)Mongolian (2)Nahuatl (1)Navajo (1)Nigerian Pidgin (1)Norwegian (1)Nuer language (1)Old Church Slavonic (2)Old English (2)Old Norse (3)Old Turkic (1)Polish (1)Portuguese (1)Quechua (1)Romanian (1)Russian (1)Serbian (2)Shona (1)Slovak (1)Spanish (1)Swedish (1)Tagalog (1)Tamasheq language (2)Turkish (1)Ukrainian (1)Uzbek (2)Vietnamese (1)Yoruba (1)Zulu (1)Showing the 100 most common of 120 options.Region of OriginAllArmenia (1)Bulgaria (1)China (1)Ireland (1)Italian Peninsula (1)Mongolia (2)Scandinavia (1)The Korean Peninsula (1)West Africa (1)InfluencedAllArmenian Alphabet (1)Cherokee Syllabary (1)Cyrillic Script (1)Georgian Script (1)Han Script (1)Ogham (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 17Armenian AlphabetEncodedBopomofoEncodedCoptic AlphabetEncodedCyrillic ScriptEncodedGeorgian ScriptEncodedGlagolitic AlphabetEncodedGreek ScriptEncodedHangulEncodedLatin ScriptEncodedMongolian ScriptEncodedN'KoEncodedOghamEncodedOld Italic ScriptEncodedOld Turkic ScriptEncodedRunic Alphabet (Elder Futhark)EncodedTifinaghEncodedYounger FutharkEncodedSources1. Wikipedia: AlphabetWikimedia FoundationHistory, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabetsQuote, History, Alphabets related to Phoenician, Ancient Near Eastern alphabetsIn 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.