The Phoenician alphabet began in the Phoenician city-states located in Lebanon, about 1200 BCE.
The Phoenician Alphabet
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.
They Got It From The Phoenician Alphabet And Adapted It.
It was inspired by the Phoenician alphabet, around the 8th Century BCE.
The alphabet simplifies trade between people that spoke different languages. Phoenician sea trade,in return ,helped the alphabet to spread
Because the Greek alphabet was adapted from Phoenician, which began with Alef. (Nobody knows why the Phoenician alphabet begins with that letter).
The Phoenician alphabet did not contain vowels.
The Greeks did they borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and created the own alphabet using the Phoenician alphabet.
It's really not similar at all. The Phoenician alphabet has 22 consonants and no vowels. The only similarity is that the English alphabet is a version of the Latin alphabet which was adapted from the Greek alphabet alphabet which was adapted from the Phoenician alphabet.
The Phoenician Alphabet
Vowels.
The Phoenician alphabet {on wikipedia}
The Phoenician alphabet was the basis for the Hebrew alphabet as well as the Greek alphabet. The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, during the 15th century BCE. Before that, the Phoenicians wrote with a cuneiform script.
Phoenician is an alphabet which forms syllables and words. Cuneiform is syllabic.
The Phoenician traders took their alphabet with them and it was adopted and adapted.
The Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet.
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.