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English has only ever had 2 alphabets in its History. The First was the Futhark alphabet, which was replaced by the Latin alphabet in the 9th Century.

Today we still use the Latin alphabet.

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Ancient Egyptians'hieroglyphsis awriting"system" not an alphabet, though it hasalphabetelements.

The oldest, "true" alphabet (which contains both vowels andconsonants) is Greek,derivedfrom thePhoenicianalphabet.

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for me the oldest letter is a The letter "O" is the oldest letter. It has not changed in shape since its adoption in the Phoenician alphabet c. 1300 B.C.

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This is really impossible to answer, since there are several alphabets, for instance Roman, Greek, Cyrillic) were invented gradually many thousands of years ago.

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The longest letter in the English alphabet is "M". It stands for "meter". lol

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The English alphabet was borrowed and modified from the Latin Alphabet, but it is unknown which letter was created first.

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All the letters of the English alphabet are the same age, except for:

J, U, and W.

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