# Albright identified 23 of a probable 27 letters, Hamilton gives each an Egyptian prototype, and a Wadi el-Hol sign has…

> Albright identified 23 of a probable 27 letters, Hamilton gives each an Egyptian prototype, and a Wadi el-Hol sign has been argued to write ghayin, a…

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Evidence · Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet

# Albright identified 23 of a probable 27 letters, Hamilton gives each an Egyptian prototype, and a Wadi el-Hol sign has…

Albright identified 23 of a probable 27 letters, Hamilton gives each an Egyptian prototype, and a Wadi el-Hol sign has been argued to write ghayin, a consonant Phoenician later merged.

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## What it means

Key question[How many letters did the earliest alphabet have, and which Egyptian signs are their prototypes?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW8BKH407/how-many-letters-did-the-earliest-alphabet-have-and-which)

2 answers, none ahead yet

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Answer this evidence bears on[About 27 letters with Egyptian prototypes (Albright, Hamilton)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/answers/ANS0DEDYQ73G7Y9/about-27-letters-with-egyptian-prototypes-albright-hamilton)

Supports2 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 3

[The Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHWQG7RQQ/the-origins-of-the-west-semitic-alphabet-in-egyptian-scripts)

Hamilton 2006

SRC

[The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions and Their Decipherment](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHK7BXY9J/the-proto-sinaitic-inscriptions-and-their-decipherment)

Albright 1966

SRC

[Wadi el-Hol Inscription 2 and the Early Semitic Alphabetic Graph *ǵ, *ǵull-, "yoke"](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKG38SA0K/wadi-el-hol-inscription-2-and-the-early-semitic-alphabetic)

Vanderhooft 2013

SRC

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