![]() It is known, for example, that this script was adopted by the Greeks at some point during the 8 th century BC or even earlier, and then adapted it to suit their own language. The development of the alphabet becomes a little clearer from the Phoenician alphabetic script onwards. Proto sinaitic, phoenician and latin script, alphabet - development, table ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) From the Phoenicians to the Greeks Nevertheless, to date, these remain as conjectures, as the Proto-Sinaitic script has not been fully deciphered yet. Comparisons have been made between the letters of these two ancient scripts in order to find a link between them. It has been hypothesised by scholars that the famous Phoenician alphabetic system was based on the Proto-Sinaitic script. It was, however, the Proto-Sinaitic script, rather than the Ugaritic that is associated with the next stage of the development of the alphabet we have today. Based on the clay tablets, scholars have concluded that the Ugaritic script consisted of 27 consonants and 3 vowels, and, like English, was written from left to right. Around 5000 clay tablets written in the Ugaritic script have been discovered in Ugarit (in modern day Syria) so far, and it is thought that this writing system was invented between the 14 th and 12 th centuries BC. Whilst the Proto-Sinaitic script is still not entirely understood by scholars, another better known early alphabetic system is that of the Ugaritic script. This system, which has been named ‘Proto-Sinaitic’, is speculated to have been developed either during the 19 th century BC by Canaanite workers living in the Sinai Peninsula, or during the 15 th century BC by Semitic workers living in Central Egypt. It has been suggested that the earliest alphabetic system was based on the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Stele of Minnakht, Chief of the Scribes(c.
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