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 along with other Phoenician and Canaanite centres, the signal was given a linear variety (three), the supply of all later forms. In Semitic languages this signal was known as aleph I