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Which came first, the Hebrew Alefbet or the Greek alphabet?
The archaic Hebrew Alefbet is older, and not very different from the Phoenician Alefbet which developed at about the same time. The modern square Hebrew dates to the Babylonian Captivity, the letters are the same as the archaic ones. The Greeks seem to have gotten the idea of an alphabet from the Phoenicians, and went on to improve it by making some letters into real vowels.
How was the alphabet created?
By symbols from older languages such as Hebrew and Egyptian changing and morphing. Look at the "Naked Archaeoligist" episode on Alphabet. (it has nothing to do with nudity)
Is something ancient older than something medieval?
Yes.
Was there an age restriction for the ancient Greek Olympics?
You had to be 7 years of age or older to compete in the Ancient Greek Olympics.
What country does the name 'Helen' come from?
Ancient Greece at the latest (ie Helen of Troy), might be older than that. Greek-influnced ancient societies are often described as "hellenized".
Which came first, the Hebrew Alefbet or the Greek alphabet?
The archaic Hebrew Alefbet is older, and not very different from the Phoenician Alefbet which developed at about the same time. The modern square Hebrew dates to the Babylonian Captivity, the letters are the same as the archaic ones. The Greeks seem to have gotten the idea of an alphabet from the Phoenicians, and went on to improve it by making some letters into real vowels.
What did the Phoenician alphabet make easier for people in the ancient world?
Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Lebanon and Tartus Governorate in Syria. The Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1200 BCE, was a non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, or abjad. The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and it was perhaps the first alphabetic script to be wide used. Phoenician spread around the Mediterranean, particularly to Tunisia, southern parts of the Iberian Peninsula which is the modern Spain, Portugal, Malta, southern France and Sicily, and was spoken until the 1st century AD. Historians do not speak on how the language made what easy in the least part.
How was the alphabet created?
By symbols from older languages such as Hebrew and Egyptian changing and morphing. Look at the "Naked Archaeoligist" episode on Alphabet. (it has nothing to do with nudity)
Who invented the Phoenician alphabet?
The Hebrew alphabet The Hebrew alphabet developed alongside several other alphabets in the Middle East, more than 3000 years ago, but it's not known what individuals were involved. There was a different Hebrew alphabet in use prior to 3000 years ago, which may have developed as early as 8,000 years ago. The creators of that alphabet are also unknown.Nobody knows, but it was adapted from the Phoenician alphabet more than 3300 years ago.
Why was the Old Testament written in Hebrew?
The Hebrew alphabet (אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי) is used in the writing of the Hebrew language, as well as of other Jewish languages, including:YiddishLadinoJudeo-ArabicJudeo-AramaicThe basic alphabet is as follows (from right to left):א ב ×’ ד ×” ו ×– ×— ט ×™ ×› ל מ × ×¡ ×¢ פ צ ק ר ש תThe Hebrew alphabet has 22 Consonants and no vowels. It does not have upper and lower case, but five letters have different forms when used at the end of a word:ך ם ן ×£ ×¥Hebrew writing is referred to as an abjad, which is an alphabet with no vowels. As with other abjads, such as the Arabic alphabet, scribes later devised means of indicating vowel sounds by vowel points, known in Hebrew as niqqud. There are about 20 Niqqud symbols, though a few are rare and/or extinct. Niqqud symbols are not considered to be part of the alphabet. Here is a sample text with Niqqud, which are the dots and dashes above, inside, and below the letters:בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹקִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץIn rabbinic and Modern Hebrew, the letters א ×” ו ×™ are also used as "vowel letters." When used to write Yiddish, the writing system is a true alphabet (except for borrowed Hebrew words). The following letters are used as vowels in Yiddish:א = a×¢ = e×™ = iאָ = oו = u×™×™ = ei as in weight×™×™Ö· = ei as in heightIn modern usage of the Hebrew alphabet, as in the case of Yiddish (except that ×¢ replaces ×”) and to some extent modern Israeli Hebrew, vowels may be indicated. Today, the trend is toward full spelling with these letters acting as true vowels.There have been two scripts in use. The old Hebrew script is known as the paleo-Hebrew script (which has been largely preserved, in an altered form, in the Samaritan script), while the present "square" form of the Hebrew alphabet is a stylized form of the Aramaic script and was known by Israel's sages as the Ashuri script (Assyrian script), since its origins were alleged to be from Assyria. Various "styles" (in current terms, "fonts") of representation of the letters exist.There is also a cursive Hebrew script.
What is qof?
Qof (ק) is the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It has the sound of k in Modern Hebrew, but historically it was pronounced further back in the throat, and is often represented with a q.More information about QofQoph or Qop (Phoenician Qōp Phoenician qoph.svg) is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads. Aramaic Qop (?) is derived from the Phoenician letter, and derivations from Aramaic include:Phoenician Qof = ?Hebrew Qof = קUgaritic Qop = ?Syriac Qōp̄ = ܩArabic Qāf = ق.Its original sound value was a West Semitic emphatic stop, presumably [kˤ] or [q]. In Hebrew gematria, it has the numerical value of 100.The origin of the glyph shape of qōp is uncertain. It is usually suggested to have originally depicted either a sewing needle, specifically the eye of a needle (the Hebrew קוף means "hole"), or the back of a head and neck (qāf in Arabic meant "nape"). According to an older suggestion, it may also have been a picture of a monkey and its tail.Besides Aramaic Qop, which gave rise to the letter in the Semitic abjads used in classical antiquity, Phoenician qōp is also the origin of the Latin letter Q and Greek Ϙ (qoppa) and Φ (phi).
Why does the alphabet change in greece?
because they use another alphabet, an older one than our Latin alphabet.
Did Hebrews take their writing from Phoenicians?
Direct Answer:The alphabetic script used by the Greeks, Hebrews, Babylonians, Romans and us today came from the Phoenician alphabetic script they developed in the 12th Century BCE.
Did the greek language come from latin?
Greek followed after Hebrew in the 1st century B.C. I looked up evidence and saw that not only was Greek inspired from the pictograph of Hebrew, Greek was inspired from Phoenician language which was inspired from Egyptian, which was inspired from the Hebrew. Hebrew then gains a foothold as the oldest language in the world, being that it has more than twenty forms, as handed down by the fathers and improved. One thing, though, Greek has been in parts of the Bible in Paul's Epistles when he went to Greece.
Zeus is as real as Yahweh?
Yes; both have followers who had/have faith in the deities of Yahweh and Zeus.No.Yahweh the current Semite/Hebrew/Canaanite/Christiangod.Zeus is a older Greek deity of ancient mythology.
How did the Phoenicians spread their alphabet?
The ancient mercantile civilization of Phoenicia helped to spread civilization in ancient times primarily through its daring, far-ranging seafaring voyages. Motivated by trading interests above all, yet perhaps also spurred on by the desire to explore for its own sake, Phoenician traders were for many generations the "go-betweens" of older civilizations in the east and newer, rougher societies elsewhere in the Mediterranean and beyond. They carried trade goods, yet at the same time they carried technologies, ideas, and values from one point to another.
When was the Hebrew language born?
Nobody knows. There is archaeological evidence for it going back 3000 years, but it is most likely much older than that.Even from a modern linguistic point of view, the ancient Israelites were speaking an ancestral form of Hebrew long before the Torah was written down, though it's not truly known how long.The Hebrew spoken prior to the 10th Century BCE is known today as Proto-Hebrew, and it wasn't distinct from ancient Ugaritic or ancient Canaanite.All of the Northwest Semitic languages, including Hebrew, started to become differentiated during the Iron Age (1200–540 BCE). Prior to 1200 BCE it could still referred to as Hebrew, particularly when referenced as the dialects of the Jewish ancestors, though it's not known how it differed from the Archaic Biblical Hebrew of the Torah.
