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Who were the inventors of the alphabet inventors of the alphabet?
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Back in the years BC, the Phoenician traders were some of the busiest people around. These merchants sailed back and forth across the Mediterranean Sea carrying shiploads of cargo. They traded cast-metal objects molded from gold and silver. They traded glass. They traded textiles, especially textiles dyed with their famous purple dye. All of this trading made their businesses prosper. They kept busy and worked hard to keep their businesses growing.
Just as with a business today, one thing that may have slowed them down was record keeping. At that time most writing used symbols for words or numbers. Maybe the Phoenicians decided that a writing system with symbols for sounds would be much more efficient than a system with a different symbol for each word. A system with fewer symbols would certainly be quicker to learn and easier to remember. The Phoenicians began using an alphabet that had only 22 symbols, or letters -- one for each consonant sound.
Even though the Phoenicians probably built their alphabet on ideas that they had learned from other cultures, they are often called the inventors of the alphabet. The Egyptians, who are best known for their hieroglyphics, had also used symbols that stood for sounds. Other cultures may have used a combination of picture and sound symbols too.
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What is the antonym of alphabet?
Sorry, but there is no antonym for alphabet.
How many letters are they in the alphabet?
the alphabet has 26 letters in it
What is the 22nd letter of the alphabet?
The 22 letter of the alphabet is V.
How do you convert from alphabet to braille alphabet?
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/braille_print.asp
How many symbols in Chinese alphabet?
There is roughly about 47,035 characters in the Chinese alphabet.
Where did the Phoenicians get the alphabet from?
Nobody knows, but it is assumed that they were the original inventors of the concept.
Who were the inventors of the alphabet?
Answer:The following answer is slightly in error. The Egyptians did have a consonantal alphabet as part of their hieroglyphics, as early as 3200 BCE. They are considered the inventors of the Alphabet. The Phoenicians were the first to use a purely phonetic writing system.Answer:The Phoenicians had the first documented alphabet, created around 1000 BCE, although some scholars think there may have been earlier ones.The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Alpha and Beta.The Latin alphabet, used in English and most Western European languages, was invented by the Romans.Chinese writing and Egyptian Hieroglyphics are not alphabets; they use characters to represent things rather than sounds. If you know what sound each letter of the Latin alphabet makes, you can read a word you don't know and still learn how it is pronounced, but a Chinese pictogram gives the reader no clue as to what word it represents.
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