WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Phoenician language is based around an alphabet of 22 letters, each one representing a sound in the Phoenician language. However, not all of the sounds in the language are actually represented. Phoenician is a consonantal alphabet, which means that it only has letters to represent the consonants.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 22 Phoenician letters are simplifications of Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols, which took on a standardized form at the end of the 12th century BCE. Like Hebrew and Arabic, Phoenician was written from right to left, and vowels were omitted (which makes deciphering Phoenician even harder).

Detailed explanation-3: -The conventional date of 1050 BC for the emergence of the Phoenician script was chosen because there is a gap in the epigraphic record; there are not actually any Phoenician inscriptions securely dated to the 11th century. The oldest inscriptions are dated to the 10th century.