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ancient egyptians didn't use a phonetic-based alphabet. Theirs was a pictographic language, so there were no individual letters, though the pictograms could also be used to represent phonograms. There is a theory that the alphabet originated with the Semitic people in ancient Egypt, as they adapted and refined the phonogram system the egyptians used. However no one gave vowel sounds their own letter until the Ancient Greeks. Theirs was the first true alphabet, and the first to give the A sound a letter.

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