First, cunieform was created. It was made in an area in the middle east (Mesopotamia) which is now in Iraq. Then new languages developed like Phoenic and the Greek alphabet. Now, we have the Engllish alphabet!
Cuneiform
The Phoenicians were from the Levant, not Mesopotamia. They passed on their alphabet.
One fact is that the alphabet was easier than cuneiform.
The Summarian civilizations of Mesopotamia
The first written alphabet was invented in Sumer (Mesopotamia) around 4000BC. Other cultures had hiroglyphics, but an actual alphabet is Sumerian. The English type of letters are Greek.
First, cunieform was created. It was made in an area in the middle east (Mesopotamia) which is now in Iraq. Then new languages developed like Phoenic and the Greek alphabet. Now, we have the Engllish alphabet!
Cuneiform
The Phoenicians were from the Levant, not Mesopotamia. They passed on their alphabet.
One fact is that the alphabet was easier than cuneiform.
The Aramaic alphabet is believed to have originated in the 10th century BCE. It was used primarily by the Aramaeans, a Semitic-speaking people in ancient Mesopotamia, and eventually spread to become a common script in the Near East.
Egyptian hieroglyphs are pictographs that correspond the sound of the first syllable of the thing being depicted. Phoenician cuneiform writing uses abstract symbols to correspond with spoken sounds. The latter evolved into the Greek alphabet, then the Roman alphabet, and then into the modern Western alphabet.
Egyptian hieroglyphs are pictographs that correspond the sound of the first syllable of the thing being depicted. Phoenician cuneiform writing uses abstract symbols to correspond with spoken sounds. The latter evolved into the Greek alphabet, then the Roman alphabet, and then into the modern Western alphabet.
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.
The Summarian civilizations of Mesopotamia
cuneiform, standard language, first structured civilization
The first empire in Mesopotamia