Phoenician alphabet
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The Phoenician alphabet is an ancient consonantal writing system developed by the Phoenician civilization that became the ancestor of most major modern alphabets, including Greek, Latin, and Arabic.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phoenician alphabet canonical | 45 |
| Phoenician script | 13 |
| Paleo-Hebrew alphabet | 2 |
| Phoenician | 2 |
| Canaanite alphabet | 1 |
| Phoenician letter aleph | 1 |
| Phoenician script family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18665 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Phoenician alphabet Context triple: [Latin alphabet, ultimatelyDerivedFrom, Phoenician alphabet]
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A.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet is the writing system originally used for Latin that has become the most widely adopted script in the world, forming the basis of many modern languages including English, Spanish, and French.
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B.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
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C.
Old Italic script
Old Italic script is an ancient family of writing systems used on the Italian peninsula, from which the Latin alphabet ultimately evolved.
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D.
Koine Greek
Koine Greek is the common dialect of ancient Greek that served as the primary language of the New Testament and early Christian writings.
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E.
Septuagint
The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Phoenician alphabet Target entity description: The Phoenician alphabet is an ancient consonantal writing system developed by the Phoenician civilization that became the ancestor of most major modern alphabets, including Greek, Latin, and Arabic.
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A.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet is the writing system originally used for Latin that has become the most widely adopted script in the world, forming the basis of many modern languages including English, Spanish, and French.
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B.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is an alphabetic writing system used for many Slavic and other Eurasian languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Ukrainian.
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C.
Old Italic script
Old Italic script is an ancient family of writing systems used on the Italian peninsula, from which the Latin alphabet ultimately evolved.
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D.
Koine Greek
Koine Greek is the common dialect of ancient Greek that served as the primary language of the New Testament and early Christian writings.
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E.
Septuagint
The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Northwest Semitic script
ⓘ
abjad ⓘ ancient script ⓘ consonantal writing system ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Arabic alphabet
ⓘ
Aramaic alphabet (historically) ⓘ
surface form:
Aramaic alphabet
Etruscan alphabet ⓘ Greek alphabet ⓘ Hebrew alphabet ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ Nabataean alphabet ⓘ Old Italic script ⓘ
surface form:
Old Italic scripts
Phoenician alphabet self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
Punic script ⓘ Aramaic alphabet (historically) ⓘ
surface form:
Syriac alphabet
|
| containsVowelLetters | no ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Proto-Canaanite script ⓘ |
| developedBy | Phoenician civilization ⓘ |
| directionality | right-to-left script ⓘ |
| influenced | development of alphabetic writing ⓘ |
| ISO15924Code | Phnx ⓘ |
| notableInscriptionSites |
Byblos
ⓘ
Sidon ⓘ Tyre ⓘ |
| numberOfLetters | 22 ⓘ |
| primaryUse | recording Phoenician language ⓘ |
| region |
Eastern Mediterranean
ⓘ
Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
|
| relatedTo |
Proto-Canaanite script
ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Sinaitic script
Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ |
| scriptCode | Phnx ⓘ |
| scriptFamily |
Northwest Semitic
ⓘ
Semitic ⓘ |
| standardOrder | abjad order ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 1st millennium BCE
ⓘ
late 2nd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| unicodeBlock | Phoenician ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Phoenician civilization
ⓘ
surface form:
Phoenicians
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| usedFor |
religious inscriptions
ⓘ
royal inscriptions ⓘ trade records ⓘ |
| vocalizationMethod | implied vowels ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingMedium |
ostraca
ⓘ
papyrus ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ |
| writingSystemClass | alphabetic ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | consonantal ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Phoenician alphabet Description of subject: The Phoenician alphabet is an ancient consonantal writing system developed by the Phoenician civilization that became the ancestor of most major modern alphabets, including Greek, Latin, and Arabic.
Referenced by (65)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.