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Proto-Canaanite alphabet

Proto-Canaanite alphabet proper noun: an abjad of twenty-plus acrophonic glyphs, found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age (from ca. the 15th century B.C.E.), by convention taken to last until a cut-off date of 1050 B.C.E., after which it is called Phoenician.

Proper noun

Proto-Canaanite alphabet

  1. An abjad of twenty-plus acrophonic glyphs, found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age (from ca. the 15th century B.C.E.), by convention taken to last until a cut-off date of 1050 B.C.E., after which it is called Phoenician.

Questions about Proto-Canaanite alphabet

What does Proto-Canaanite alphabet mean?
Proto-Canaanite alphabet means an abjad of twenty-plus acrophonic glyphs, found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age (from ca. the 15th century B.C.E.), by convention taken to last until a cut-off date of 1050 B.C.E., after which it is called Phoenician.
What part of speech is Proto-Canaanite alphabet?
Proto-Canaanite alphabet is a proper noun.

Words near Proto-Canaanite alphabet in the dictionary

  1. proto-Britain
  2. Proto-Brythonic
  3. Proto-Bungku-Tolaki
  4. proto-calcium
  5. Proto-Canaanite
  6. Proto-Canaanite alphabet
  7. Proto-Celtic
  8. Proto-Central Algonquian
  9. Proto-Central Malayo-Polynesian
  10. Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  11. Proto-Chamic

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