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| | Phoenicia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Historian Gerhard Herm further asserts that, because the Phoenicians' legendary sailing abilities are not well attested before the invasions of the Sea Peoples around 1200 BC, that these Sea Peoples would have merged with the local population to produce the Phoenicians, who seemingly gained these abilities rather suddenly at that time. | | | Traditionally, the city of Thebes was founded by a Phoenician prince named Cadmus when he set out to look for his sister Europa, who had been kidnapped by Zeus. | | | But ultimately, the origins of the Phoenicians are still unknown: where they came from and just when (or if) they arrived, and under what circumstances, are all still energetically disputed. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia
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| | MSN Encarta - Alphabet |
| | The Cyrillic alphabet, in various forms, is used currently in Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian—languages spoken by Eastern Orthodox Christians. | | | Other ancient Semitic groups, including the early Hebrews, the Moabites, and the Aramaeans, used variants of Phoenician writing. | | | By about 500 bc left to right had become the standard direction of Greek writing. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565349_2/Alphabet.html
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| | EDSITEment - Lesson Plan |
| | The Phoenicians were a trading people who came from the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. | | | Images of Phoenician ships can be also be viewed at this link from the Internet Public Library. | | | Photos of a reconstructed Phoenician ship can be found at the Phoenician Experience, also through the Internet Public Library. |
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http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=518
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| | Phoenician Desception |
| | The "Phoenician Theory" was established in Europe during a time, when, as the renowned British classical scholar, S. Rembroke (The Legacy of Greece, Oxford University Press, 1984) wrote, "The Phoenicians were given an intermediary role "that is not based on any historical information". | | | This is how the "Phoenician Theory" was substantiated and is maintained as an obvious forgery. | | | It is apparent that these archaeological discoveries have given a "comical' character to the so-called "Phoenician Theory" on the discovery of writing. |
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http://www.grecoreport.com/phoenician.htm
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| | ALPHABET |
| | Diringer suggests that the north-western Semitic inventor or inventors (Canaanites, Hebrews, or Phoenicians) of the alphabet were influenced by Egyptian writing ; he thinks that they were probably also acquainted with most of the scripts current in the eastern Mediterranean. | | | The Egyptians never reduced their writing to an alphabet and the same was believed to be true for cuneiform, until comparatively recently. | | | The origin of the alphabet has long been a subject for research, speculation and myths. |
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http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/alphabet.htm
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| | The Evolution of the Alphabet |
| | Phoenician, like other West Semitic writings, consisted of syllabic signs beginning with a consonant and ending in any vowel. | | | Another branch developed among the South Arabs, who lived in an area which corresponds roughly to modern Yemen. | | | The North Arabs took over a form of the Aramaic system. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/alpha.html
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| | Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Following the decline of Hebrew and Aramaic as the spoken languages of the Jews, the Hebrew alphabet was adopted in order to write down the languages of the Jewish diaspora (Karaim, Judæo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish, etc.). | | | The Unicode Hebrew block extends from U+0590 to U+05FF. | | | This use of letters as numbers is used in Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) in a practice known as gematria. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet
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| | Phoenician Alphabet |
| | Repulsed from Sparta, Aristagoras went on to Athens, which had been liberated from autocratic government in the way which I will now describe. | | | The Gephyraei, to whom the two men who killed Hipparchus belonged...I have myself looked into the matter and find that they were really Phoenicians, descendants of those who came with Cadmus to what is now Boeotia where they were allotted the district of Tanagra to make their homes in. | | | At dawn next morning he was seen communicating his dream to the interpreters; but later he put it out of his mind and took part in the procession, during which he was killed. |
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http://phoenicia.org/alphabet.html
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| | Phoenician Alphabet Origin |
| | And since money and wealth were involved, people were highly motivated to learn the system and make sure it was being accurately written down. | | | The reader was assumed to speak the language, so they would know what sound to put between the consonants. | | | Every country which had a seashore seems to have done trade with them. |
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http://www.phoenician.org/alphabet.htm
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| | Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Phoenician inscriptions have been found in archaeological sites at a number of former Phoenician cities and colonies around the Mediterranean, such as Byblos (in present-day Lebanon) and Carthage in North Africa. | | | The original Proto-Sinatic letters had been pictograms, derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs was in use from ca. | | | Like Proto-Canaanite, Arabic and Hebrew, Phoenician is a consonantal alphabet (an abjad), and contains no symbols for vowel sounds, which had to be deduced from context. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
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| | Ancient Scripts: Alphabet |
| | In Israel, it became the "Jewish" alphabet, the direct descendant of which is the modern Hebrew alphabet. | | | The Hebrew alphabet was also used by Moabites as well as Israelites. | | | The immediate offspring of Phoenician were the old Hebrew alphabet, and Aramaic, as well as Archaic Greek according to tradition (we'll explore Archaic Greek later). |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/alphabet.html
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| | alphabet. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The precursors of the alphabet were the iconographic and ideographic writing of ancient man, such as wall paintings, cuneiform, and the hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians. | | | The exact steps are unknown, but the Phoenician, Hebrew, Arabic, and Devanagari systems are based ultimately on signs of the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. | | | Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic all have their own alphabets. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/al/alphabet.html
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| | Phoenician Alphabet Meditation and Divination |
| | I've found out that the Hebrew alphabet, the direct descendent of the Phoenician, also has hidden meanings, about which much has been written by the Jewish mystics and kabbalists. | | | In which is the mystery of the Shekinah -- the living word of the Torah, Tanach -- the Holy Scriptures in Judaism [known by some as the Old Testament]. | | | This may be more than coincidental, since the Runes are a descendent of the Phoenician alphabet, by way of South Arabia. |
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http://davidmyriad.tripod.com/phoenician.alphabet.index.html
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| | ODYSSEY/Greece/Writing |
| | Byblos was on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea on the Sinai Peninsula. | | | The Phoenician alphabet had 22 consonants, but no vowels. | | | We aren't sure who invented the alphabet, but the oldest writing with an alphabet was found in the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos. |
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http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/alphabet.html
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| | The Phoenician Language |
| | There were many branches that sprang up from Phoenician, like Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. | | | Phoenician itself remained in use, in the form of Punic (more cursive), until about 200 AD. | | | Notable Features - The Phoenician alphabet consists of 22 letters, many of which have a number of different forms, and does not indicate vowel sounds. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/phoenician.html
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| | Ancient Scripts: Greek |
| | For example, the Phoenician letter 'aleph (which stood for a glottal stop) became the Greek letter alpha (which stands for [a] sound). | | | While there are many differences between the many variants of the early Greek alphabet, enough similarities exist to suggest the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet once and splintered rapidly into local variants rather than adopting multiple times. | | | The Greek alphabet was also the basis for Glagolitic, Cyrillic, and Coptic, Gothic scripts among others. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html
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| | Egyptian Symbols to Phoenician Alphabet |
| | Note that the Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician alphabets only write consonants, perhaps because the Egyptians had symbols for single consonants but not vowels. | | | During the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, foreign names, including Semitic names, were written in characters of only one consonant, in other words, alphabetically. | | | By then it had become more stylized and simpler. |
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http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/alphabet/gpt2pnc.html
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| | Alphabets - Phoenician Alphabet |
| | The ancient document inscription was discovered in Akhiram and it is dated of the 13 Th century BC. | | | The discover of this alphabet did not consisted in the invention of a series of graphical signs, but in the decomposition words in simple sounds which each one is represented for an only sign. | | | The archaic Phoenician alphabet, that is in the origin of all actual alphabets, appeared for the first time in Biblos. |
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http://www.imultimedia.pt/museuvirtpress/ing/alfa/a3.html
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| | Ancient Scripts: Proto-Sinaitic |
| | South Arabian was also an early offshoot of Proto-Sinaitic, as its letters are very different in shape and order from Phoenician. | | | Proto-Sinaitic, also known as Proto-Canaanite, was the first consonantal alphabet. | | | The following is a comparison between Proto-Sinaitic, Phoenician, and Greek alphabets. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/protosinaitic.html
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| | JAARS Museum of the Alphabet: Scripts: Phoenician |
| | The Phoenician Alphabet, a kind of North Semitic alphabet, had 22 letters, whose shapes were the precursors of most of the world's writing systems. | | | Questions or comments about the museum should go to info@jaars.org. | | | Copyright © 1999-2003 JAARS Museum of the Alphabet. |
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http://www.jaars.org/museum/alphabet/scripts/phoen.htm
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| | KryssTal : Writing - Phoenician |
| | Phoenician is one of the oldest alphabets in the world and the basis of most of the world's alphabets and syllabaries. | | | Click on the ISBN Number to go straight to the book. | | | Visit Amazon by clicking on a logo below. |
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http://www.krysstal.com/writing_phonecian.html
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| | EDSITEment - All Subject Categories |
| | that were added to the Roman alphabet in medieval times, as it evolved into the alphabet we use. | | | Can you see how the Greek letters developed from the Phoenician letters? | | | This illustration shows how our modern alphabet developed from the previous alphabets. |
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http://edsitement.neh.gov/Phoen_Greek_Anim.asp
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