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Their trading ships took it with them and the local peoples took it up.
The Hebrews were the first to adapt the Phoenician alphabet for the Hebrew language.
Some say it was the Sumerians...
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.
There were no previous alphabets. Prior to the Phoenician alphabet, writing systems involved thousands of pictures to represesent words.
The Greeks copied and adapted the Phoenician alphabet for their own use.
The Phoenician alphabet had only 22 characters. It did not use a difficult pictoral sign for each word but it was the first phonetic writing. It was much simpler than Sumerian or Egyptioan writing and became the basis of the Greek and the Roman alphabet.
They modified it, as did the Greeks and Romans.
Early Greek merchants adapted the Phoenician alphabet for their own use.
The alphabet we use today was based on the Phoenician alphabet system, passed to us via the Greek and Roman alphabets.
The Greek alphabet, an evolution of the Phoenician. An evolution of the Greek alphabet was the Latin.
No, they invented an alphabet, from which our alphabets of today have descended.