The tablets from Ugarit were found to have been written in an alphabetic cuneiform that might have preceded the Phoenician alphabet.
Appendix B, Fortran Library, is an alphabetic listing, by mnemonic name, of intrinsic functions and subroutines.
The set consists of 26 alphabetic flags, 10 numeral pennants, 3 substitutes, and 1 answering pennant.
Thus, HroXucuoi is spelt Ptwrmys, Antoninus, Ntnynws or Intnyns, &c. &c. Much earlier, throughout the New Kingdom, a special syllabic orthography, in which the alphabetic signs for the consonants are generally replaced by groups or single signs having the value of a consonant followed by a semi-vowel, was used for foreign names and words, e.g.
N.B. I normally get learners to write the schwa symbol underneath the alphabetic script.
