Try this site:
http://www.geocities.com/trpjwig/cuneiform/cuneiform.html
One fact is that the alphabet was easier than cuneiform.
Egyptian - hieroglyphics, Phoenician - alphabet, Sumerian - cuneiform, Akkadian - cuneiform.
You can't. That was not one of their words. Cuneiform is not an alphabet.
Cuneiform?
Cuneiform
Cuneiform consists of signs, each meaning a word. There is no alphabet.
Cuneiform
Cuneiform
Those were very different. Cuneiform was hard to learn with many symbols. The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters so it was easier to master.
That cuneiform are pictures and the other one are typ of kind of like leters and pictures
The Old Persian alphabet was written in a simplified cuneiform. It formed a semi-alphabetic syllabary.The Ugaritic language was written using the Ugaritic alphabet, a standard Semitic style alphabet (an abjad) written using the cuneiform method.But Cuneiform patterns have no resemblances to any form of alphabetic writing used today.
One is alphabetic, the other syllabic.