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It was inspired by the Phoenician alphabet, around the 8th Century BCE.
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What alphabet was the basis of the greek alphabet?
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.
What alphabet did the greek alphabet come from?
The Phoenician Alphabet
What is the first and oldest alphabet?
It is the Greek alphabet.
What is the first and 2nd letter in the Greek alphabet?
The first letter in the Greek alphabet is alpha, and the second is beta. From them we get the word alphabet.
What is the place of pi in the greek alphabet?
Pi is the sixteenth letter in the modern Greek Alphabet.
Which country does the word 'alphabet' originate from?
Alphabet is Ancient Greek. It comes from the Greek word "Alphabetos". Alpha is the Greek letter for A. Beta is the Greek letter for B.
What country did Pi originate from?
The letter Pi (π) came from the Greek language (Greece) - it is the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
What alphabet was Greek alphabet based on?
The Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet.
What alphabet was the basis of the greek alphabet?
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.
Christmas the a common abbreviation of Christmas but which alphabet does it originate from?
It comes from Greek alphabet. In Greek name Christ starts with letters XP (Chi and Rho), and so Xmas is an abbreviation for Christmas. Why only X? Maybe it looks better..
How is the English language influenced by Phoenicians?
No influence whatsoever, apart from the fact that modern alphabets originate from the Phoenician alphabet. The Greeks modelled their alphabet on that of the Phoenicians. The Latins adopted and adapted the western Greek alphabet. We use an adapted form of the Latin alphabet.
Is the Russian alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet?
The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with the addition of several characters from the Hebrew alphabet.
What kind of alphabet do Greeks use?
The Greek alphabet, an evolution of the Phoenician. An evolution of the Greek alphabet was the Latin.
How did your alphabet originate?
Semites.
How did the greek alphabet influence the American alphabet?
Americans use the Latin Alphabet, which was directly influenced and based on the Greek Alphabet.
How do you turn Greek alphabet in to English alphabet?
You don't. The Greek alphabet is quite different from the Latin alphabet (which is used for English).
What was the main difference between the main alphabet and the greek alphabet?
One main difference between the Latin alphabet and the Greek alphabet is the set of characters they use. The Latin alphabet has 26 letters, including both uppercase and lowercase forms, while the Greek alphabet has 24 letters and does not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase forms in the same way. Additionally, the two alphabets have different origins and developed independently of each other.
