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What was the contribution of the Phoenicians to the development of writing?
They invented an alphabet to replace hieroglyphic writing, and syllabic writing.
How did the Phoenicians improve upon the Sumerian invention?
The Phoenicians improved upon the Sumerian invention by when the Sumerians invented the first writing system (symbols and cuneiform) the Phoenicians invented the alphabet which was easier.
What is a system of letters invented by the Phoenicians to make writing easier?
The Alphabet
How did the Phoenicians make writing simpler?
They invented alphabetic writing to replace pictographic and syllabic writings.
Who invented writings?
The Sumerians in Mesopotamia are thought to have invented writing around 5,000 years ago. The Egyptians invented the first rudimentary alphabet, and the Phoenicians invented the first writing system that was exclusively alphabetic.
What form of communication did the Phoenicians use?
they would use there own alphabet and make words like we do but it was very different
What form of writing did Phoenicians use?
The produced the form of alphabetic writing which was adopted and adapted by Greeks, Israelites, Romans and today's European languages.
What Phoenician inventions did the Greeks improve?
the alphabet
What did the Phoenicians invent to make record-keeping easier?
They were the first to develop alphabet-based writing, much simpler than the writing systems developed so far.
From which culture did the Phoenicians learn hieroglyphics?
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.
Were the Phoenicians Islamic?
Islam was invented nearly a millennium after the demise of the Phoenicians.
Who is Phoenicians who invented the greek language?
The Phoenicians did not invent the Greek language.
