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<p>[QUOTE="7Calbrey, post: 4627502, member: 38412"]The Phoenician letter O is a consonant. It has nothing to do with our Latin vowel O. If I want to write Astarte in Phoenician, I will start with O. The same will apply to Abdashtart. The Phoenician alphabet had no vowels. The Greeks added vowels to the first known Phoenician alphabet.</p><p>The consonant O does not exist in Latin, nor in Greek. It's typically Semitic and called "Ayn" to mean "Eye" because it has a round shape like an eye. It exist in the Hebraic and Arabic alphabets, among other Semitic languages.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="7Calbrey, post: 4627502, member: 38412"]The Phoenician letter O is a consonant. It has nothing to do with our Latin vowel O. If I want to write Astarte in Phoenician, I will start with O. The same will apply to Abdashtart. The Phoenician alphabet had no vowels. The Greeks added vowels to the first known Phoenician alphabet. The consonant O does not exist in Latin, nor in Greek. It's typically Semitic and called "Ayn" to mean "Eye" because it has a round shape like an eye. It exist in the Hebraic and Arabic alphabets, among other Semitic languages.[/QUOTE]
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