The earliest known alphabetic inscriptions, at Serabit el-Khadim (c. 1500), appear to record a Northwest Semitic language, though only one or two words have been deciphered. In the Early Iron Age, alphabetic writing spread across the Near East and southern Europe. With the emergence of the Brahmic family of scripts, languages of India are attested from after about 300 BC.[a] Phoenician - c. 1000 BC: Ahiram epitaph Aramaic - 10th century BC Hebrew - 10th century BC: Gezer calendar Ammonite - c. 850 BC: Amman Citadel inscription[13] Moabite - c. 840 BC: Mesha Stele Phrygian - c. 800 BC Old North Arabian - c. 800 BC Old South Arabian - c. 800 BC Etruscan - c. 700 BC: proto-Corinthian vase found at Tarquinia[14] Latin - 7th century BC: Vetusia Inscription and Fibula Praenestrina from Praeneste[15] Umbrian - c. 600 BC North Picene - c. 600 BC Lepontic - c. 600 BC Tartessian - c. 600 BC Lydian - c. 600 BC[6] Carian - c. 600 BC[6] Thracian - c. 6th century BC Venetic - c. 6th century BC Old Persian - c. 500 BC: Behistun inscription South Picene - c. 500 BC Messapian - c. 500 BC Gaulish - c. 500 BC Mixe–Zoque - c. 500 BC: Isthmian script (disputed) Oscan - c. 400 BC Iberian - c. 400 BC Meroitic - c. 300 BC Faliscan - c. 300 BC Volscian - c. 275 BC Middle Indo-Aryan (Prakrit) - c. 260 BC: Edicts of Ashoka[16][17] Tamil - c. 200 BC: cave inscriptions and potsherds in Tamil Nadu[18][19] Galatian - c. 200 BC Pahlavi - c. 130–170 BC Celtiberian - c. 100 BC
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