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They modified it, as did the Greeks and Romans.

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What was the importance of the Phoenician alphabet to the Israelites?

Like the Greeks, they based their own alphabet on it.


How many letters were there in the Phoenician alphabet?

The Phoenician alphabet is the oldest verified consonantal alphabet, dating to approximately 1200 BCE. The alphabet was used by the ancient civilization of Phoenicia and through their traveling and colonization came to widespread use. The Phoenician alphabet consisted of 22 letters, many of which form the basis of the greek alphabet and therefore the Latin and English alphabets currently in use.


Why was the Phoenician alphabet easier to use than the previous alphabet?

There were no previous alphabets. Prior to the Phoenician alphabet, writing systems involved thousands of pictures to represesent words.


What Phoenician achievements did the Greeks adopt?

The Greeks copied and adapted the Phoenician alphabet for their own use.


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.


What was the most important contributinn of the Phoenician civilization?

The alphabet we use today was based on the Phoenician alphabet system, passed to us via the Greek and Roman alphabets.


How was the greek alphabet invented?

Early Greek merchants adapted the Phoenician alphabet for their own use.


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 kind of alphabet do Greeks use?

The Greek alphabet, an evolution of the Phoenician. An evolution of the Greek alphabet was the Latin.


What alphabet did the greek alphabet come from?

The Phoenician Alphabet