It provided a means of written communication in a readily understandable and economical way. It was adapted and adopted by other civilisations, leading to Greek and Latin writing, and our alphabets of today.
It was the basis for the English alphabet.
It provided the peoples with effective written communication when it was adapted and adopted by the Greeks, Romans and others.
It gave them an economical and effective means of written communication.
Their spread around the Mediterranean Sea.
The Phoenician trading ship spread their writing system around the Mediterranean Sea.
It was adapted for se by Latin and Greek, and so the basis of writing today.
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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.
The Phoenician alphabet did not contain vowels.
The Greeks did they borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and created the own alphabet using the Phoenician alphabet.
The Phoenician alphabet began in the Phoenician city-states located in Lebanon, about 1200 BCE.
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.
The Phoenician Alphabet
West Semitic people from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean (where Phoenician and Hebrew groups lived) are usually credited with developing the world's first alphabet.
The Phoenicians traded around the Mediterranean Sea, and spread their writing to the peoples there.