Graphic prototypes of zvezdnaya azbuka (star alphabet) by Velimir Khlebnikov: phoenician alphabet and brahmi script by O A Luokianova

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Sur l’origine de l’écriture libyque. Quelques propositions by Dominique Casajus

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An alternative hypothesis on the origin of the Greek alphabet by Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti

“…They were the first “Westerners” to master the Phoenician alphabet. From there, the alphabet, which by then had become consonantal and vocalic, would have spread to Phrygia through Cappadocia, and then to the peoples of the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia through Cilicia Trachea. …”
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Interdisciplinarity in Archaeology and Historical Linguistics: the case of ALPHA by Maria Mertzani

“…This is an ongoing research and its existing data so far combat the wide spread belief that the archaic Greek alphabet is originated by the Phoenician alphabet, demonstrating evidence of language similarities (in terms of (a), and (b)), even in early Neolithic Greece and the Balkans.  …”
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The poster boys of antiquity’s “capitalism” shunning money? The spread of the alphabet in the Mediterranean as a function of a credit-based, maritime trade by Eleftheria Pappa

“…BCE), becoming the vehicle by which the west Semitic abjad, the Phoenician ‘alphabet’, was rapidly adopted and adapted into various phonetic and syllabic scripts in the Mediterranean. …”
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“You give me letters instead of money?” Commercial transactions in the Near East and the Western Mediterranean ca. 1100-600 BCE: social innovation and institutional inhibition of P... by Eleftheria Pappa

“…The reasons behind the sudden and sweeping spread of the Phoenician alphabet in the 8th-7th c. BCE remain unresolved, yet endlessly debated. …”
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A Short Introduction to Semitic Studies by Paolo Agostini

“…Hebrew was first written in the Canaanite-Phoenician alphabet, but in the 4th century BC the Jews adopted from Aramaic the square alphabet still used. …”
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