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Antiguo Oriente 12: 71-104. Open-access statement of Colless's position: the proto-alphabet is a simplification of the Byblos (West Semitic) syllabary, 18 of 22 Phoenician letters have a syllabary ancestor, and Mendenhall's decipherment is defended.
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Brian E. Colless (2014). The Origin of the Alphabet: An Examination of the Goldwasser Hypothesis. https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/bitstream/123456789/6787/4/origin-alphabet-goldwasser-hypothesis.pdf
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title = {The Origin of the Alphabet: An Examination of the Goldwasser Hypothesis},
year = {2014},
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. “The Origin of the Alphabet: An Examination of the Goldwasser Hypothesis.” 2014.