It allowed efficient communication and record-keeping.
No one 'discovered' it. It was adapted from the Phoenician alphabet in the 8th Century BCE.
There were many important Phoenician ports and traade centers throughout the Mediterranean. The culture started on the east end of the Med, so a good answer would be Tripoli.
The Phoenician alphabet {on wikipedia}
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.
Simply, it provided good influence to later phonetic languages like Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, and Greek as well as indirect influence to most languages written in today. The Phoenician alphabet is considered the first real alphabet. Alphabets are undeniably very beneficial to writing, learning, and speaking a language, which is why the Phoenician language was important.
the phoenician contributed to our history by coming up with the alphebet
No one 'discovered' it. It was adapted from the Phoenician alphabet in the 8th Century BCE.
start with the alphebet song
There were many important Phoenician ports and traade centers throughout the Mediterranean. The culture started on the east end of the Med, so a good answer would be Tripoli.
There were many important Phoenician ports and traade centers throughout the Mediterranean. The culture started on the east end of the Med, so a good answer would be Tripoli.
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The Phoenicians traded around the Mediterranean Sea and beyond, and used their alphabetic writing for communication and records. This writing system was attractive to peoples using cumbersome and inaccurate hieroglyphic and syllabic writing systems, so it took root in the Greek and later the Roman worlds, and today our alphabets are grandchildren of it.
The kings of the independent city-states which made up the Phoenician world.
Trading and inventing an alphabet.
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You learn both the the Phoenician and English alphabets and the Phoenician and English languages. Then you can move from one to the other.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ is the English alphebet.