aA bA cA dA eA fA gA hA iA jA kA lA mA nA oA pA qA rA sA tA uA vA wA xA yA zA About a thousand bce, in Byblos and also other Phoenician and Canaanite centres, the indication was provided a linear sort (3), the source of all afterwards types. In Semitic languages this indicator was named aleph