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The Ancient Greeks adapted it from the Phoenician alphabet
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Who came up with the Latin alphabet?
The Ancient Romans adapted it from the Greek Alphabet.
Who came up with 26 letters in the alphabet?
The English Alphabet came from the Roman Alphabet. The Roman Alphabet was derived from the Greek alphabet but was modified because some Latin sounds are different from Greek Sounds. Greek does not have a C sound. Latin has a W. Koine Greek does not but Doric Greek does. Still, no one knows just who modified the Greek Alphabet to make it suitable for Latin.
Where did the alphabet come from?
Our alphabet came from Latin, which came from the Greek alphabet, which came the ancient alphabet used by Semites. See related link below for more information.
What alphabet was invented before the Latin alphabet?
Greek Hebrew Phoenician Egyptian and several others.
Why is letter a the first letter in the alphabet?
The Latin letter a came from the first letter of the Greek alphabet (alpha) which came from the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet (alef), but nobody knows why alef is the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet.
Where the symbol form of PI came from?
The Greek alphabet.
What are facts about the greek alphabet?
The Greek alphabet is made up of different symbols that are assigned a name. Some example letters are alpha, beta, zeta, and delta. Many fraternity and sorority houses are named after Greek letters such as Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Delta Pi. The Greek alphabet for the most part, came from the Phoenician alphabet.
How did the greek alphabet impact other civilizations?
The Greek alphabet was thought up by the phoenicians.
Who came up eith the word pi?
The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, roughly 3.1416, is denoted in science and math by a symbol called 'pi'. The symbol is the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet.
What alphabet was the basis of the greek alphabet?
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.
What alphabet was Greek alphabet based on?
The Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet.
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.
