Quote by James John Courtenay

“The oldest Phoenician inscriptions date from around 1100 BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Phoenician writing is a continuation of the Proto-Canaanite system, and from these developed the Palaeo-Hebrew script (c. 800 BCE) and the Aramaic script (c.…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The inscription of King Mar'alqais , found south of Damascus and dated at 328 CE, is usually said to be the first document in Arabic.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The Phoenician extends from the v cent B.C. to i cent. B.C ... The Aramaic extends from the viii cent. B.C. to the iii…

— James John Courtenay

“A comparative study will lead to the conclusion that the Phoenician, Aramaic and Greek alphabets were developed from one original.”

— James John Courtenay

“... before the tenth century Hebrew writing, like Phoenician, was purely consonantal, and it was halfway though the ninth century BCE, under the influence…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“European scholars had translated into Latin two important Arabic manuscripts, written by the ninth-century Persian mathematician Abū ‘Abdallāh Muammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (ca. 780–ca.…

— Keith J. Devlin

“The earliest inscriptions in Hebrew date from the tenth BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Archaic Hebrew ... earliest inscriptions dating as far back as the close of the second millennium BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“In its classical form Arabic is of later date than Hebrew, but in its ancient form akin to Hebrew and Aramaic, certainly as old,…

— James John Courtenay

“The picture-writing of the Greeks in the pre-Homeric age was derived from a Semitic source, circa second millennium B.C., the type of alphabetic script…

— James John Courtenay

“Nabataean (i.e., Syro-Arabian) people had a dialect differing somewhat from both Syriac and Arabic. Remains of this language are found in inscriptions in the…

— James John Courtenay