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Who made the Greek alphabet?
The Greeks.
How did the Greeks develop the alphabet?
the Greek alphabet was developed by a Greek with first hand experience of contemporary.
Did the Greeks invent the Greek alphabet?
yes ******* The Greeks derived the alphabet from the Phoenicians and they adapted it in their own needs.
Whose alphabet is the Greek alphabet based on?
The current consensus is that the Greeks got the alphabet from the Phoenicians.
Are Roman and Greeks the same?
If by writing you mean the alphabet, they were similar when the Greeks used their western alphabet (there was also an eastern one). The Latins, like the Etruscans and all other peoples of ancient Italy adopted and adapted the western Greek alphabet which was brought to Italy by Greeks who settled in southern Italy.
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