Proto-Canaanite alphabet

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  ʾalp "ox" (origin of Latin letter A)
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  bet "house" (B)
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  gaml "throwstick" (C, G)
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  digg "fish" (D)
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  haw / hll "jubilation" (E)
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  waw "hook" (F, U, V, W, Y)
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  zen /ziqq "manacle" (Z)
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  ḥet (H)
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  ṭēt (Θ) "wheel"
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  yad "arm" (I, J)
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  kap "hand" (K)
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  lamd "goad" (L)
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  mem "water" (M)
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  naḥš "snake" (N)
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  samek "fish"
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  ʿen "eye" (O)
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  piʾt "corner" (P)
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  ṣad "plant"
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  qup (Q)
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  raʾs "head" (R)
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  šimš "sun, the Uraeus" (S)
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  taw "signature" (T)

Proto-Canaanite*	Phoenician		Hebrew
		alf	א	aleph
		bet	ב	bet
		gaml	ג	gimel
		delt	ד	daleth
		he	ה	he
		wau	ו	waw
		zai	ז	zayin
		het	ח	het
		tet	ט	tet
		yod	י	yod
		kaf	כ	kaph
		lamd	ל	lamed
		mem	מ	mem
		nun	נ	nun
		semk	ס	samekh
		ain	ע	ayin
		pe	פ	pe
		sade	צ	sade
		qof	ק	qoph
		rosh	ר	resh
		shin	ש	shin / sin
		tau	ת	taw

* "Proto-Semitic alphabet" (font semear.ttf) is not a scholarly concept, nor is it historically attested, but is part of the theology of a particular religious group.