The Phoenician Alphabet
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.
The Phoenician alphabet is older than the ancient Hebrew alphabet. The Phoenician script emerged around the 12th century BCE, while the earliest forms of the Hebrew alphabet developed later, around the 10th century BCE. The Hebrew script is derived from the Phoenician alphabet, reflecting the influence of Phoenician writing on later Semitic languages.
They Got It From The Phoenician Alphabet And Adapted It.
It was inspired by the Phoenician alphabet, around the 8th Century BCE.
Because the Greek alphabet was adapted from Phoenician, which began with Alef. (Nobody knows why the Phoenician alphabet begins with that letter).
The Phoenician alphabet did not contain vowels.
The Greeks did they borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and created the own alphabet using 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.
The Phoenician Alphabet
Vowels.
The Phoenician alphabet {on wikipedia}
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.
The Phoenician traders took their alphabet with them and it was adopted and adapted.
Phoenician is an alphabet which forms syllables and words. Cuneiform is syllabic.
The Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet.
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.