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.