Twenty-two letters
Write like Cadmus.
A merchant script. No vowels to hide behind. Type a name, a city, a sentence — the mother alphabet answers from right to left.
Phoenician
𐤕𐤅𐤓𐤅𐤔 𐤓𐤀𐤔𐤀𐤁𐤉𐤀𐤃𐤅𐤔
The ox and the house
Each letter began as a picture. Aleph is an ox. Beth is a house. The Greeks turned the ox-head on its side and called it alpha. You are looking at the ancestor of every letter on this screen.