On the back of your dollar they have the Phoenician words.
Phoenician is an alphabet which forms syllables and words. Cuneiform is syllabic.
It is from the Phoenician words quart khadash = new town.
It is from the Phoenician words quart khadash = new town.
Write words.
There were no previous alphabets. Prior to the Phoenician alphabet, writing systems involved thousands of pictures to represesent words.
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Phoenician!
That cuneiform are pictures and the other one are typ of kind of like leters and pictures
The Phoenician Alphabet was a phonetic system with 22 letters that represent consonants. The Cuneiform system used pictographs to represent entire words and concepts, and had many thousands of characters.
The Phoenician alphabet {on wikipedia}
The Phoenician alphabet began in the Phoenician city-states located in Lebanon, about 1200 BCE.