Proto-Canaanite en · PROPN
Etymology
From proto- + Canaanite.
Meanings
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The Proto-Sinaitic script, when found in Canaan.
Although the Proto-Canaanite script was eventually to dominate in Syria-Palestine, there was a local rival that flourished for several centuries and this has come to be known as Ugaritic.
2001, The Ancient Aramaic Heritage, page 30:The Ugaritic alphabet signs also follow the same order as those letters it shares with the Proto-Canaanite alphabet.
2016, William H. Stiebing Jr., chapter 7, in Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture, page 188: