Also known as Early Linear script, Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician abjad, Phnx
abjad found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions across the Mediterranean from the 11th–2nd centuries BCE
The Phoenician script was an ancient writing system used by Canaanite and Aramaic speakers across the Mediterranean region between the 11th and 2nd centuries BCE. It was an abjad, meaning it represented consonants but not vowels, and served as a practical writing tool for peoples engaged in trade and communication across a vast geographic area during this historical period.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).