The Phoenician Alphabet

The Phoenician alphabet continues the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, by convention called Phoenician from the mid 11th century.

The Phoenician alphabet was based on the principle, "one sign represents one spoken sound."

The Phoenician alphabet started the Greek and Berber alphabets.

The names of the letters of the Phoenician alphabet start with consonants. These consonants were what the letters represented.