Proto-Sinaitic script ... some of which invoke the principal gods of the Canaanites, a Semitic-speaking people who lived in the Levant and had close contacts with the Egyptians.

This kind of writing system came thousands of years later, and the story goes that the earliest alphabet—known as Proto-Sinaitic ... the other evidence favors Semitic speakers in Egypt in ...

Traditionally, the origin of alphabetic writing is attributed to the Semitic peoples of the Sinai around 1900 BCE. This alphabet, known as “Proto-Sinaitic,” is thought to have been derived ...