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BY the courtesy of M. Virolleaud, the decipherer of the recently discovered Phœnician cuneiform alphabet of Ras Shamra, I have had the opportunity of studying the twenty-nine symbols (including alternatives) which he has identified, and the phonetic values which he attributes to them. It is therefore possible to compare the form of the symbols with that of the mouth posture (or gesture) which produced the sound for which, it is believed, they each stood. The symbols and their phonetic values and Hebrew equivalents are set out in Fig. 1.
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PAGET, R. Mouth-Posture Forms of Phœnician Cuneiform Symbols. Nature 127, 850–851 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127850a0
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