Phoenician alphabet where it evolved and was assimilated by many other cultures. The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is a local variant of the Phoenician alphabetical script. Another derivative script is the Aramaic alphabet, which was the ancestor of the modern Arabic script. The Modern Hebrew script is a stylistic variant of the Aramaic script. The Greek alphabet (and by extension its descendants, such as Latin, Cyrillic, Runic, and Coptic) was also derived from Phoenician. As the letters were originally incised with a stylus, most of the shapes are angular and straight, although more cursive versions are increasingly attested in later times, culminating in the
Elbasan alphabet this alphabet of Albanian, whereas Shuteriqi and Domi see a strong influence of Bulgarian due to the jurisdiction, until 1767, of the Bulgarian-rite Archbishopric of Ohrid. Elbasan alphabet The Elbasan script is a mid 18th-century alphabetic script used for the Albanian language. It was named after the city of Elbasan, where it was invented, and was used mainly in the area of Elbasan and Berat, and is the oldest original script used to write Albanian. It was created for the "Elbasan Gospel Manuscript", also known as the "Anonimi i Elbasanit" ("the Anonymous of Elbasan"), which is the primary document associated