Phoenician Alphabet


Alphabets: Aramaic    Brahmi    Gothic    Greek    Phoenician    Phonetic    Runes   

Aleph
Aleph
ox


Beth
house


Gimel
camel


Daleth
door


He
window


Waw
hook


Zayin
weapon


Heth
fence


Teth
wheel


Yodh
arm


Kaph
palm (of a hand)


Lamedh
goad


Mem
water


Nun
fish


Samekh
pillar


Ayin
eye


Pe
mouth


Sade
papyrus plant


Qoph
Eye of a needle


Res
head


Sin
tooth


Taw
mark

Phoenician Alphabet
Although the Phoenicians used cuneiform (Mesopotamian writing) in what we call Ugaritic, they also produced a script of their own. The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century B.C.
phoenicia.org/alphabet.html
Table of the Phoenician Alphabet   

Ancient Scripts: Phoenician
The Phoenician script is an important "trunk" in the alphabet tree, in that many modern scripts can be traced through it.
www.ancientscripts.com/phoenician.html
Major Alphabets   

Phoenician alphabet - omniglot.com
The Phoenician alphabet developed from the proto-Canaanite alphabet, which was created sometime between the 18th and 17th centuries BC.
www.omniglot.com/writing/phoenician.htm