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THE ALPHABET
more than they can help us to solve the problem of the origin of the alphabet or that of decipherment of the early Canaanite script.
South
Modern Hebrew
Canaanite- Phoenician
Ras Shamra
Sefirite-Sinaitic
Cuneiform
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Fig. 103-The relation of the Early Sinaitic (Se'irite-Sinaitic) script to the South Semitic (South Arabic), North Semitic (Canaanite-Phænician) and Ugarit (Ras
Shamra) alphabets, according to Prof. Martin Sprengling
