Northwest Semitic alphabetic script

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The Northwest Semitic alphabetic script is an early family of consonantal writing systems used in the ancient Near East that gave rise to later scripts such as Phoenician, Aramaic, and Hebrew.

All labels observed (7)

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf consonantal script
writing system family
ancestorOf Arabic alphabet
Aramaic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script

Greek alphabet
Hebrew alphabet
Latin alphabet
Nabataean alphabet
Old Italic scripts
Phoenician alphabet
South Arabian script
Syriac alphabet
characterType consonants only
developedFrom Early alphabetic script
Proto-Sinaitic script
evidenceType epigraphic inscriptions
historicalStatus extinct as a living script
influenced Aramaic script tradition
Hebrew script tradition
Phoenician script tradition
notableFeature one of the earliest fully developed consonantal alphabets
relatedTo Canaanite alphabet
linked to: Phoenician alphabet

Proto-Canaanite script
scriptClass West Semitic script
linked to: Semitic scripts
scriptFamilyOf Ammonite script
Aramaic alphabet
Byblian script
Edomite script
Moabite script
Old Hebrew alphabet
linked to: Paleo-Hebrew script

Paleo-Hebrew script
Phoenician alphabet
Proto-Phoenician script
timePeriod early 1st millennium BCE
late 2nd millennium BCE
usedByLanguage early Canaanite
early Hebrew
early Phoenician
usedByLanguageFamily Northwest Semitic languages
linked to: Northwest Semitic
usedInRegion Levant
linked to: Levant region

ancient Near East
vowelNotation vowels generally not written
writingDirection right-to-left
writingSystemScope family of related local alphabets
writingSystemType alphabetic
consonantal

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Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Deir Alla dialect writingSystem Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions scriptFamily Northwest Semitic scripts
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Lachish ewer inscription scriptFamily Northwest Semitic alphabet
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Mediterranean alphabet derivesFrom Northwest Semitic consonantal script tradition
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Nabataean inscriptions scriptFamily Northwest Semitic script
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Ras Shamra tablets scriptFamily Northwest Semitic alphabetic scripts
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Block script (Ktav Ashuri) scriptFamily Northwest Semitic scripts
subject linked to: block script (Ktav Ashuri)
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Phoenician letter Waw scriptFamily Northwest Semitic scripts
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Balaam inscription writingSystem Northwest Semitic alphabet
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Dhiban writingSystemAncient Northwest Semitic alphabet
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Paleohispanic scripts influencedBy Northwest Semitic scripts
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Old Aramaic scriptFamily Northwest Semitic scripts
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Khirbet Ataruz inscriptions writingSystem West Semitic alphabet
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Paleo-Hebrew script scriptFamily Northwest Semitic scripts
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Syriac Pe historicalOrigin Northwest Semitic scripts
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script
Aramaic script scriptFamily Northwest Semitic scripts
linked to: Northwest Semitic alphabetic script