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Who made the Phoenician alphabet?

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Updated: 8/18/2019

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What are two benefits to the Phoenician alphabet?

the Phoenician alphabet developed into our modern day alphabet and it helps us communicate.


Whose alphabet did the Greeks modify?

They made modifications to the old Phoenician alphabet.


What made the Phoenician alphabeteso unique?

It was the first alphabet.


What are advantages that the phoenician alphabet have over cuneiform?

The Phoenician alphabet is simpler and more concise than cuneiform, which had hundreds of characters. This made the Phoenician alphabet easier to learn and more adaptable for different languages. Additionally, the Phoenician alphabet was more portable, as it could be easily written and inscribed on various surfaces.


What did the Phoenician alphabet not contain?

The Phoenician alphabet did not contain vowels.


Who is the invented the 'a'letter?

The Greeks did they borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and created the own alphabet using the Phoenician alphabet.


Where did the Phoenician alphabet begin?

The Phoenician alphabet began in the Phoenician city-states located in Lebanon, about 1200 BCE.


Why is the English alphabet so similar to 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.


What alphabet did the greek alphabet come from?

The Phoenician Alphabet


The latin word for Phoenician?

The Phoenician alphabet {on wikipedia}


What did the Greek alphabet have that the Phoenician alphabet did not?

Vowels.


The Phoenician alphabet was probably derived from and would become the basis for?

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.