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Although based on pictographs, it gave sounds which would combine into syllables and words, rather than the crude sounds of pictograms which lacked accuracy in representing words.
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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 was the the importance of the Phoenician alphabet?
It provided an easier and more accurate form of writing than the pictograph and syllabic used to that time. It became the basis of Greek and Latin alphabets, and the ones we use today.
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.
How are the Phoenician alphabet and Coneiform writing different?
Phoenician is an alphabet which forms syllables and words. Cuneiform is syllabic.
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.
What alphabet was the basis of the greek alphabet?
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.
