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Phoenician - 22 letters, no vowels; Greek 16 letters including vowels.
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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.
What alphabet did the greek alphabet come from?
The Phoenician Alphabet
What did the Greek alphabet have that the Phoenician alphabet did not?
Vowels.
Why does the greek alphabet begin with a?
Because the Greek alphabet was adapted from Phoenician, which began with Alef. (Nobody knows why the Phoenician alphabet begins with that letter).
What was the Greeks alphabet based on?
The Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet.
What kind of alphabet do Greeks use?
The Greek alphabet, an evolution of the Phoenician. An evolution of the Greek alphabet was the Latin.
How does the Phoenician alphabet compare to the English alphabet?
Both are phonetic systems, however the Phoenician Alphabet has no vowels, and it more accurately called an "Abjad" rather than an "Alphabet".
How was the greek alphabet invented?
Early Greek merchants adapted the Phoenician alphabet for their own use.
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.
Why is the Phoenician alphabet false?
The Phoenician alphabet is real, and formed the basis of the Greek and Roman alphabets, and today's European alphabets.
Why is letter a the first letter in the alphabet?
The Latin letter a came from the first letter of the Greek alphabet (alpha) which came from the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet (alef), but nobody knows why alef is the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet.
