Paleo-Hebrew script

Like the Phoenician alphabet, it is a slight regional variant and an immediate continuation of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, a regional form of the Proto-Sinaitic script which was used throughout Canaan in the Late Bronze Age. Phoenician, Hebrew, and all of their sister Canaanite languages were largely indistinguishable dialects before that time. The Paleo-Hebrew script is an abjad of 22 consonantal letters, exactly as the other Canaanite scripts from the period.