An alphabet which became the basis of Greek and Roman alphabets, and so today's alphabets.
They invented an alphabet to replace hieroglyphic writing, and syllabic writing.
Their alphabet became the basis of modern writing.
An alphabetic means of writing as opposed to the cumbersome and inaccurate syllabic and pictogram scripts.
The lasting one was developing a system of alphabetic writing which was adapted by the Greeks and Romans and forme the basis of todays Western alphabets.
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Alphabetic writing.
Hieroglyphics is the name we give to Egyptian symbol writing. The Phoenicians invented their own simplified writing system based on alphabetic symbols which represented sounds. This simplified writing and was copied and modified by the Greeks and Romans, and forms the basis of today's alphabets.
The Hebrew alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians.
It helped create the writing we have today
The Phoenicians developed their writing system from the Sumerian writing system in 1400 BCE, so their writing system came after the Sumerian one.
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