aA bA cA dA eA fA gA hA iA jA kA lA mA nA oA pA qA rA sA tA uA vA wA xA yA zAAbout one thousand bce, in Byblos and also other Phoenician and Canaanite centres, the sign was offered a linear kind (3), the source of all later varieties. In Semitic languages this indicator was called alephWhen the ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, that they had no