Proto-Canaanite

English Etymology en proto- Canaanite + 1 Proper noun The Proto-Sinaitic script, when found in Canaan. en Proto-Sinaitic en 2001 The Ancient Aramaic Heritage 30 Although the Proto-Canaanite script was eventually to dominate in Syria-Palestine, there was a local rival that flourished for several centuries and this has come to be known as Ugaritic. en 2016 William H. Stiebing Jr. Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture 7 188 The Ugaritic alphabet signs also follow the same order as those letters it shares with the Proto-Canaanite alphabet. An abjad of twenty-plus acrophonic glyphs, found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age (from ca. the 15th century ), by convention taken to last until a cut-off date of 1050 , after which it is called Phoenician. Coordinate terms en Ugaritic Translations Proto-Sinaitic script Proto-Sinaitic Further reading Proto-Canaanite alphabet en Alphabets