all consonants, no vowels

'The Phoenicians, we believe, supplied the Greeks with nineteen characters'all consonants, no vowels. They wrote entirely with consonants. . . . It was a sort of 'abbreviation' writing. We sometimes do almost the same thing as, for instance, yr for 'your' and bldg for 'building.''

'Oscar Ogg, The 26 Letters, 1961.