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The modern English Alphabet evolved from Phoenician: through Hellenic; Greek; Roman; Old English; Middle English; Modern English. The letters for the phonemes: F; U; V; W; Y. Came from the Phoenician WAW; their name for the "w" phoneme in modern English. P: Phonecian symbol for the mouth. As in Pandoras Box, the human mouth. C: came from G,gimmel, camel: beast of burden, representing motive force, or causation.
The Romans borrowed the Greek alphabet, and used it to create the Latin alphabet.

The Latin alphabet is used to write English, as well as hundreds (if not thousands) of other languages, creoles, pidgins, and dialects.

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