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Q: Why were there only three vowels in the alphabet?
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What did the Phoenician alphabet not contain?

The Phoenician alphabet did not contain vowels.


How is the alphabet in hieroglyphics different from your English alphabet in terms of using vowels and consonants?

24 of the thousands of hieroglyphics are called unilaterals, and they can be considered an early type of alphabet, but they only had consonants. The first Alphabet to include vowels was the Greek Alphabet, thousands of years later.


Did the Phoenician alphabet only have 100 symbols?

It had 16 symbols, no vowels.


Are vowels letters of the English alphabet?

yes, aeiou are all vowels of the English alphabet


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

Vowels.


Any letter other than vowels in the alphabet?

Actually, there are more consonants that there are vowels in the alphabet.


The Phoenicians developed a alphabet using only how many symbols?

Sixteen, no vowels.


5 v in the e a?

5 Vowels in the English Alphabet


What are the five vowels of the alphabet?

The five vowels of the alphabet are A, E, I, O, and U.


What is the difference between IPA and the English alphabet in terms of vowels and consonants?

IPA has 107 letters of which 29 are base vowel symbols. The English Alphabet only has 26 letters, of which only 5 (plus y) are considered vowels.


Do Yiddish and Hebrew use the same alphabet?

Yes, however the Yiddish alphabet is modified for vowels. The Hebrew alphabet has no vowels, and uses dots and dashes to represent vowels.Yiddish vowels not found in Hebrew:ah = אַaw = אָeh = עih or ee = יoy = ויoo = וHebrew vowels look like this (only the dots and dashes are vowels): אָ אַ אֲ אֵ אֶ אֱ אִ אִי אֹ אֻ אוּ אְ


Does the spanish alphabet have the same vowels as the English alphabet?

yes it does