Proto-Sinaitic alphabet 19 c. BCE

• Ugaritic 15 c. BCE
• Proto-Canaanite 14 c. BCE
  • Phoenician 12 c. BCE
    • Paleo-Hebrew 10 c. BCE
      • Samaritan 6 c. BCE
    • Aramaic 8 c. BCE
      • Kharoṣṭhī 6 c. BCE
      • Brāhmī 6 c. BCE
        • Brahmic family (see)
          • e.g. Devanagari 13 c. CE
      • Hebrew 3 c. BCE
      • Thaana 4 c. BCE
      • Pahlavi 3 c. BCE
        • Avestan 4 c. CE
      • Palmyrene 2 c. BCE
      • Syriac 2 c. BCE
        • Sogdian 2 c. BCE
          • Orkhon (Old Turkic) 6 c. CE
            • Old Hungarian ca. 650
          • Old Uyghur
            • Mongolian 1204 hh
        • Nabataean 2 c. BCE
          • Arabic 4 c. CE
      • Mandaic 2 c. CE
    • Greek 8 c. BCE
      • Etruscan 8 c. BCE
        • Latin 7 c. BCE
        • Runic 2 c. CE
        • Ogham 4 c. CE
      • Coptic 3 c. CE
      • Gothic 3 c. CE
      • Armenian 405
      • Georgian ca. 430 CE
      • Glagolitic 862
      • Cyrillic ca. 940
    • Paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) 7 c. BCE
  • Epigraphic South Arabian 9 c. BCE
    • Ge’ez 5–6 c. BCE

Meroitic (from Egyptian) 3 c. BCE Hangul (partly from Brahmic) 1443 Zhuyin (aka Bopomofo, from Chinese) 1913 This box:

The Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1050 BC, was a non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, or abjad. It was used for the writing of Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language, used by the civilization of Phoenicia. It has been classified as an abjad because it records only consonantal sounds, with the addition of matres lectionis for some vowels.

Phoenician became one of the most widely used writing systems, spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world, where it was assimilated by many other cultures and evolved. The Aramaic alphabet, a modified form of Phoenician, was the ancestor of the modern Arabic and Hebrew scripts. The Greek alphabet (and by extension its descendants such as the Latin, the Cyrillic and the Coptic), was a direct successor of Phoenician, though certain letter values were changed to represent vowels.

As the letters were originally incised with a stylus, most of the shapes are angular and straight, although more cursive versions are increasingly attested in later times, culminating in the Neo-Punic alphabet of Roman-era North Africa. Phoenician was usually written from right to left, although there are some texts written in boustrophedon.

In 2005, UNESCO had registered the Phoenician alphabet into the Memory of the World as a heritage of Lebanon

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