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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.
Whose alphabet is the Greek alphabet based on?
The current consensus is that the Greeks got the alphabet from the Phoenicians.
How did the alphabet originate?
The first semi-phonetic writing system was a set of 24 symbols used in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. The Phoenicians were the first to use only phonetic symbols. They had an alphabet of 22 consonants, but the vowels were not written. The Greeks were the first use us phonetic symbols for all the sounds of a language (the first pure alphabet)
What two letters of the greek alphabet gave us the word alphabet?
alpha and beta
Which civilization gave us the Phoenician alphabet?
The Phoenician civilisation.
Who gave greeks their alphabet?
the Phoenicians made an alphabet that the Greeks adopted and changed a little.
How did Phoenicians influence later people's?
They gave them the alphabet which has been the basis for written communication passed on to the Greeks, Romans and to us today.
Who were the Phoenicians and what three things did they give the Mediterranean world?
They were nomads who settled in the Levant and established a trading empire.
Who is the saint who gave his name to an alphabet?
Saint Cyril is the saint who gave his name to the Cyrillic alphabet. He and his brother Methodius were missionaries who created the alphabet to translate religious texts into Slavic languages in the 9th century. Today, the Cyrillic alphabet is used in various countries, including Russia, Bulgaria, and Serbia.
Which ancient people developed an alphabet that gave rise to the Hebrew Greek and the Latin alphabets still in use today?
There is no ancient people that did this. While the Phoenicians developed an alphabet that gave rise to Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, the Phoenician alphabet is not still in use today.
What is Phoenicia's greatest legacy to the world?
Well, off of the top of my head Phoenicia gave the world its first modern alphabet, of course they also improved trade and the like, but one of the major contributions they gave to the world was the alphabet.
Did the Phoenician alphabet stabilize the economy?
No, it gave a means of written communication.
What did the ancient Greeks give us in the morden world?
they gave us the 3-coarse meal, the wheel, concrete, aqueducts, architectural styles, the roman alphabet, highways, handball, feild hockey, and a type of soccer.
Does the alphabet help us to communicate?
no
Describe three ways ataturk changed life for the people of his country?
He adopted democracy and latin alphabet for his country. Gave women the right to vote.He adopted democracy and latin alphabet for his country. Gave women the right to vote.
