It dates back to the 8th century BCE and was used until the fourth century BCE ("Old Phrygian" inscriptions), after which it was replaced by the common Greek alphabet ("New Phrygian" inscriptions, 1st to 3rd century CE).
The alphabet consists of 19 letters – 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and 14 consonants (b, g, d, v, z, y, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t).
[1] A variant of the Phrygian alphabet was used in the inscriptions of the Mysian dialect.
It is usually written from left to right ("dextroverse"), but about one-sixth of the inscriptions were written from right to left ("sinistroverse").
[3][4] The nineteen characters of the Old Phrygian alphabet are:[5]