Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Chavoux Luyt <chavoux AT gmail.com>]

Hi Fred

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> One article I originally posted, emphatically stated the creation of one
> alphabet only, not the two track alphabets you indicated:
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> a. nile river hieroglyphs to canaanite alphabet; and
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> b. euphrates river cuneiform to ugaritic alphabet.
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> "The alphabet was invented only once. All alphabetic scripts derive from
> this original one, which we may call the Serabit alphabetic script."
I think what the author probably meant was that all later/existing
alphabets came from the Serabit/Sinaic/Proto-Canaanite alphabet. The
Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet was a "dead end" in that it left no later
"children" alphabets after the city was destroyed (possibly being
supplanted by the Canaanite/Phoenician/Paleo-Hebraic alphabet).

Regards
Chavoux