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The invention of the Phoenician Alphabet, the prototype for all alphabets in the world, is the most significant contribution that Lebanon has made to the whole of humanity. The new system, immediately adopted by all nations, gradually gained ground in all fields in the human sciences, including religious matters, in science and in culture. As one Lebanese thinker has said, today's digital inventions would not have been achieved without the alphabet.
It was the first to use symbols to represent the component sounds of words, so simplifying written words and ideas. From it developed the Greek and Roman alphabets which underpin the alphabets we use today.
Aurore Stanton
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∙ 10y agoThe alphabet simplified trade between people who spoke different languages.
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∙ 7y agoIt contained 16 letters with no vowels, barely sufficient to outline words, but far more effective for writing and record keeping then the pictograms and syllabic scripts it replaced.
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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 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 Greek alphabet based on?
The Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet.
What alphabet was the basis of the greek alphabet?
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.
