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They looked for a better means of written communication and record keeping than the existing hieroglyphs and syllabic writing systems.
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Why Phoenician develop a writing system?
For communication and records.
Where did the Phoenicians develop a writing system?
In the Phoenician city-states.
What was the connection between trade and the Phoenician alphabet?
The Phoenician trading ship spread their writing system around the Mediterranean Sea.
What was in the Phoenician alphabet?
It was the first system of characters for phoenetic writing, on which Greek, Latin and modern European writing developed.
How was Phoenician writing different from hieroglyphics and cuneiform writing?
Phoenician writing, known as the Phoenician alphabet, was a simpler system composed of 22 consonants. In contrast, hieroglyphics were a complex system of pictorial symbols used in ancient Egypt and cuneiform was a wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia. Phoenician writing's innovation lay in using individual symbols to represent distinct sounds, making it easier to learn and more versatile for different languages.
What was the writing system in Phoenician?
The Phoenicians developed the Phoenician alphabet, also known as the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for writing. One theory is that it may have had its origins as an adaptation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs to the Canaanite language.
How are the Phoenician alphabet and cuneiform writing different?
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.
What was the year that the Phoenician language started?
Nobody knows, but their writing system was well-established by the year 1050 BCE.
What was the writing system used in ancient Greece?
The Greek alphabet which was derived from the Phoenician one.
What was the most significant Phoenician contribution?
The alphabetic writing system, copied by Greek, Roman and modern European languages.
How was the Phoenician system of writing similar to the Egyptian system of writing?
Alphabetic is phonic, cuneiform is pictographic.
How are Phoenician alphabet and cuniform writing different?
By this time it consisted of about 700 symbol's that stood for words or syllable's about 1400b.c.,the Phoenicians had developed 22 simple characters for the entire writing system. Each character stood for a consonant.* Later,the Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician alphabet.
