The Phoenician alphabet is an alphabet (more specifically, an abjad) [3] known in modern times from the Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. The name comes from the Phoenician civilization . The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, during the 15th century BC. Before then the Phoenicians wrote with a cuneiform script. Type of writing system: abjad / consonant alphabet with no vowel indication; Writing direction: right to left in hortizontal lines. Sometimes boustrophedon. Script family: Alphabet: batman "Alphasyllabaries": bªtmªn Voweled abjad: bªt⁰mªn⁰ Pure abjad: btmn If removing the vowels results in something recognizable and readable (even if somewhat limited), it is a voweled abjad like Arabic (in which you can mark or skip the vowels). If the vowels are integral to writing and they can not be omitted, then The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad, meaning it only uses consonants, but it is now considered an "impure abjad". As with other impure abjads, such as the Hebrew alphabet. Punctuation marks were not adopted until the twentieth century. In Arabic short vowels are generally not written. The Farsi alphabet consists of 32 letters, each representing a unique sound. These letters are written from right to left, in the same direction as Arabic. Like Arabic, the Farsi alphabet is written in cursive, with most letters connected to each other. The Farsi alphabet can be divided into two categories: consonants and vowels. The 33 letters of the Neo-Tifinagh alphabet, used by the Moroccan IRCAM (Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture), and below the correspondences in the Berber Latin alphabet. The Libyco-Berber script was a pure abjad; it had no vowels. Gemination was not marked. The writing was usually from the bottom to the top, although right-to-left, and even uCQm1.

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