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Wadi el-Hol Inscription 2 and the Early Semitic Alphabetic Graph *ǵ, *ǵull-, "yoke"

David S. Vanderhooft, 2013.

MYS0DEDPKNZB213 · mystery · click to copyMProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetArticledoi: 10.1628/219222713x137570347877110

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Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 2: 125-135. Proposes that a sign in the second Wadi el-Hol inscription writes the consonant ghayin, which Phoenician later merged with ayin; an example of how the sign count of the early alphabet is argued.

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David S. Vanderhooft (2013). Wadi el-Hol Inscription 2 and the Early Semitic Alphabetic Graph *ǵ, *ǵull-, "yoke". https://doi.org/10.1628/219222713x13757034787711
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