Proto-Canaanite is the name given to
:(a) the
Proto-Sinaitic script when found in
Canaan, dating to about the 17th century BC and later.
:(b) a hypothetical ancestor of the Phoenician script before some cut-off date, typically 1050 BCE, with an undefined affinity to
Proto-Sinaitic. No extant "Phoenician" inscription is older than 1000 BCE.
The
Phoenician,
Hebrew, and other
Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before that time.
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References
External links
Precursor to Paleo-Hebrew Script Discovered in Jerusalem
Bronze Age writing systems
Canaanite languages
Canaanite writing systems
Semitic writing systems
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