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To communicate over distances, and to record trade.
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∙ 6y ago
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∙ 7y agoIt gave them an economical and effective means of written communication and record keeping.
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∙ 7y agoThe Phoenicians traded all around the Mediterranean, and so spread their writing as they went - other peoples found it better than their own hieroglyphs and syllabic writing.
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∙ 7y agoThe Phoenician traders used it for communication, and the local peoples they traded with adopted and adapted it - so it influenced Greek and Latin writing, and hence our alphabets of today.
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What is the relationship between the trade and the spread of the Phoenician alphabet?
The Phoenician traders took their alphabet with them and it was adopted and adapted.
How was the Phoenician alphabet spread?
Traders took the alphabet with them to pass on to other people.
How did the Phoenician alphabet spread to other parts?
Their traders took it with them.
How did your alphabet descend from the Phoenician alphabet?
The Phoenician alphabet was the ancestor of many modern alphabets, including the Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets. As the Phoenician traders interacted with different cultures, their alphabet was adopted and adapted by these cultures. For example, the Greeks modified the Phoenician alphabet to better represent their own language, introducing vowels and adding new letters. Over time, these modified versions of the Phoenician alphabet evolved into distinct writing systems.
What effect did their sea trade have on the Phoenicians alphabet?
The Phoenician traders spread the alphabet through the Mediterranean Sea. It was taken up by the Greeks and adapted as their own alphabet, and they spread this to their own colonies.
Phoenician contribution to world?
The alphabet, for one thing. They made great strides in sea navigation, were great traders, and were awesome.
What did the Phoenician alphabet not contain?
The Phoenician alphabet did not contain vowels.
Who is the invented the 'a'letter?
The Greeks did they borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and created the own alphabet using the Phoenician alphabet.
Where did the Phoenician alphabet begin?
The Phoenician alphabet began in the Phoenician city-states located in Lebanon, about 1200 BCE.
Why is the English alphabet so similar to the Phoenician alphabet?
It's really not similar at all. The Phoenician alphabet has 22 consonants and no vowels. The only similarity is that the English alphabet is a version of the Latin alphabet which was adapted from the Greek alphabet alphabet which was adapted from the Phoenician alphabet.
What alphabet did the greek alphabet come from?
The Phoenician Alphabet
What did the Greek alphabet have that the Phoenician alphabet did not?
Vowels.
