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 one thousand bce, in Byblos and also other Phoenician and Canaanite centres, the sign was given a linear form (3), the supply of all later on kinds. In Semitic languages this signal was referred to as aleph [4]