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 one thousand bce, in Byblos together with other Phoenician and Canaanite centres, the indication was supplied a linear form (three), the source of all later on forms. In Semitic languages this indicator was known