Free online translator for converting English names to Phoenician (đ¤đ¤đ¤đ¤đ¤)
Phoenician is an ancient alphabet from around 1050 BCE that became the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin. It was used by the seafaring Phoenician civilization.
Phoenician is an abjad - consonants only, with vowels implied. Names are approximated using the 22 Phoenician consonant letters.
Here are examples of common English names transliterated to Phoenician:
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Use our Phoenician translator above. Type your name in English and it converts to Phoenician letters. Note that vowels are typically omitted in this ancient script.
Phoenician is an abjad, a consonant-only alphabet. Readers inferred vowels from context. The Greeks later added vowels when they adapted Phoenician into the Greek alphabet.
Yes! Hebrew script descended directly from Phoenician. Both are Semitic abjads with similar letter names (aleph, beth, gimel = alef, bet, gimel).
Phoenician is the ancestor of almost all modern alphabets. Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew - all trace back to Phoenician through various branches.
Yes, scholars can read Phoenician inscriptions. The alphabet is well-understood, and many inscriptions have been translated. Our tool uses standard Phoenician transliteration.