ABSTRACT
Arabic script has a genetic relationship with the Latin alphabet, since both are historically traceable back to a script current on the Levant coast around 1000 B.c. and used for the notation ofthe language which we call Old Phoenician. That script had a repertory of twenty-two symbols, all written individually (as in our print style as opposed to handwriting); and the values of the symbols were exclusively consonantal, the script showing no means of noting a vowel at all.
