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The alphabet was created as a sort of short hand fromhieroglyphics. Instead of the characters representing words they were used to represent sounds vowels not included) and the words were concatenated collections of them. The inventors are usually consider to be Semitics from the Middle East most commonly attributed to Phoenicians however there is certain evidence that they might be Hebrews. The earliest known written phonetic sentences are in the Siana desert carved on the wall of a cave by a Hebrew slave praying for release.

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