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 a thousand bce, in Byblos and also other Phoenician and Canaanite centres, the indication was offered a linear sort (three), the supply of all later kinds. In Semitic languages this indication was known as aleph