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Protosinatique
Features
Type	Abjad
Language (s)	Semitic languages
History
Time	To -1400 to -1050
System (s) parent (s)	Hieroglyphics Protosinatique

The protosinatique alphabet, also called protocananen alphabet, is one of the oldest alphabets known. It is, derivations and subsequent revisions to the origin of most alphabets used today.

This linear alphabet . Generally referred protosinatiques poorly deciphered the inscriptions the oldest dating back half of the Bronze Age (between -2000 and -1525) and those protocananennes, safer, from the end of the Bronze Age (between -1525 and -1200), written in a Semitic language.

The Egyptian origin of this writing is corroborated by other evidence: the principle acrophonic is checked for a large number of symbols. We have seen that these symbols can be attached to the Egyptian symbol which they come. Taking the name of the Semitic symbol, we see that its phonetic value is often the beginning of this Semitic name. We explain this as simply being the inventors of the alphabet Semitic speakers knowing the meaning of hieroglyphics.

Thus the symbol representing a house

Notes

Not to be confused with the Linear A and Linear B
Around the Sinai, objects covered with signs have been unearthed. This is the English Egyptologist Alan Henderson Gardiner who in 1916 deciphered the writing system