Answer:
A. alphabet with 22 characters
Explanation:
The Phoenician alphabet is an ancient consonant alphabet, it is technically an abjad script, meaning it only has consonants, and it is not a pictographic script. It was used to write the Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language, used by the Phoenician civilization.
The Phoenician became one of the most used writing systems to be disseminated by the Phoenician merchants throughout the Mediterranean world, where it was assimilated by many other cultures that adapted it to their respective languages. The Aramaic alphabet, a modified form of the Phoenician, is the precursor of modern Arabic and Hebrew alphabets. The Greek alphabet (and by extension its descendants, such as Latin, Cyrillic, and Coptic) derives directly from the Phoenician, although the values of some letters were modified to represent the vowels.
Since the letters were originally inscribed with a stiletto, most of the shapes are angular and rectilinear, although progressively more cursive forms were gradually developed, culminating with the North African Neopunic alphabet of Roman times. The Phoenician was usually written from right to left, although some texts written from left to right have been found.
