Unicode Block - Phoenician

Phoenician is a script used in antiquity across the Mediterranean, primarily for writing the Phoenician language and its close relatives, such as Punic and early Hebrew. This ancient alphabet is notable for being one of the first widely adopted consonantal writing systems, from which many later scripts, including Greek and Latin, ultimately descended. The characters represent twenty-two consonant letters, with no inherent vowel notation, and are written from right to left. In modern digital encoding, this script is housed in a dedicated set of symbols that allows its historical texts to be preserved, studied, and rendered on contemporary devices, facilitating scholarly work and the display of inscriptions from ancient Levantine and Carthaginian civilizations.