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 1000 bce, in Byblos and also other Phoenician and Canaanite centres, the sign was provided a linear sort (three), the source of all later sorts. In Semitic languages this sign was named aleph A is usually accus