According to the authors, little is known about this first alphabet because so few inscriptions have survived that predate the 13th century BCE—just a few letters, maybe a word or two ...

Thus, Aleph, today the first letter of the alphabet, was named after their primary ... some form of North West Semitic close to early Aramaic,” Schneider said. On both sides of the stone flake ...

While critics argue that the original alphabet likely derived from a grouping of Afro-Asiatic languages – including Akkadian, Aramaic ... proto-consonantal letter ‘B,’ depicting a house ...