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About the 12th Century BCE.
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Where is the alphabet from?
The Phoenicians invented the alphabet in the 1900's B.C.E.
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 Phoenician inventions did the Greeks improve?
the alphabet
Phoenicias greatest legacy to the world?
Isn't it their alphabet?
When was alphabet invented?
The concept of a purely phonetic alphabet was invented by the Phoenicians, sometime prior to 1050 BCE.
Although not invented by the Phoenicians the idea of was passed on by them?
The alphabet.
From what alphabet did the Greeks create their alphabet?
The Greeks did not invent the alphabet. The alphabet was invented by the Phoenicians; the Greeks merely adapted the Phoenician alphabet to their own language.The Phoenician alphabet was originally a syllabary, but because of sound changes in the language it evolved into an alphabet.
Who gaved the Greeks their alphabet?
the Phoenicians invented an alphabet that the Greeks adapted it for their use by adding vowels and changing the direction of writing to left-to-right.
What is a system of letters invented by the Phoenicians to make writing easier?
The Alphabet
What is a Lebanese invention?
Lebanese people were Phoenicians so they invented the alphabet.
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 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.
