It was spread through trade with foreign people.
Each had its role in building up the Phoenician trading empire.
The Phoenician alphabet did not contain vowels.
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 {on wikipedia}
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.
The Phoenician traders took their alphabet with them and it was adopted and adapted.
Each had its role in building up the Phoenician trading empire.
The Phoenician trading ship spread their writing system around the Mediterranean Sea.
The Phoenician Alphabet
The alphabet simplifies trade between people that spoke different languages. Phoenician sea trade,in return ,helped the alphabet to spread
The Phoenician alphabet did not contain vowels.
It was both a means of communication and record keeping.
For communicationg in a pre-radio era and record keeping.
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