{"title":"Ongunkan Proto Canaanite","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProto-Sinaitic\u003c\/strong\u003e (also referred to as \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proto-Canaanite_alphabet\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProto-Canaanite\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e when found in \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canaan\"\u003eCanaan\u003c\/a\u003e, or \u003cstrong\u003eEarly Alphabetic\u003c\/strong\u003e) is found in a small corpus of c. 40 inscriptions and fragments, the vast majority from \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serabit_el-Khadim\"\u003eSerabit el-Khadim\u003c\/a\u003e in the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sinai_Peninsula\"\u003eSinai Peninsula\u003c\/a\u003e, dating to the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_Bronze_Age\"\u003eMiddle Bronze Age\u003c\/a\u003e. They are considered the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_alphabet\"\u003eearliest trace of alphabetic writing\u003c\/a\u003e and the common ancestor of both the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_South_Arabian_script\"\u003eAncient South Arabian script\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phoenician_alphabet\"\u003ePhoenician alphabet\u003c\/a\u003e, which led to many modern alphabets including the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_alphabet\"\u003eGreek alphabet\u003c\/a\u003e. According to common theory, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canaan\"\u003eCanaanites\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyksos\"\u003eHyksos\u003c\/a\u003e who spoke a \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canaanite_language\"\u003eCanaanite language\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proto-Sinaitic_script#cite_note-healy18-7\"\u003e \u003c\/a\u003erepurposed Egyptian \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hieroglyph\"\u003ehieroglyphs\u003c\/a\u003e to construct a different script.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe earliest Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions are mostly dated to between the mid-19th (early date) and the mid-16th (late date) century BC.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/collections\/ongunkan-proto-canaanite-font-runic-world-tamgac.oembed","provider":"MyFonts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}