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The Greek and Roman alphabets were derived from it, and it forms the basis of our alphabetic writing today, with which we communicate and record.

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Which civilization gave us the Phoenician alphabet?

The Phoenician civilisation.


What are two benefits to the Phoenician alphabet?

the Phoenician alphabet developed into our modern day alphabet and it helps us communicate.


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.


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.


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 alphabet did the greek alphabet come from?

The Phoenician Alphabet


What did the Greek alphabet have that the Phoenician alphabet did not?

Vowels.


The latin word for Phoenician?

The Phoenician alphabet {on wikipedia}


The Phoenician alphabet was probably derived from and would become the basis for?

The Phoenician alphabet was the basis for the Hebrew alphabet as well as the Greek alphabet. The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, during the 15th century BCE. Before that, the Phoenicians wrote with a cuneiform script.


What is the relationship between the trade and the spread of the Phoenician alphabet?

The Phoenician traders took their alphabet with them and it was adopted and adapted.