Their trading ships took it with them and the local peoples took it up.
It was spread through trade with foreign people.
The Phoenician traders spread the alphabet through the Mediterranean Sea. It was taken up by the Greeks and adapted as their own alphabet, and they spread this to their own colonies.
The Phoenician alphabet did not contain vowels.
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 Greek alphabet, an evolution of the Phoenician. An evolution of the Greek alphabet was the Latin.
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The Phoenician traders took their alphabet with them and it was adopted and adapted.
Traders took the alphabet with them to pass on to other people.
Their traders took it with them.
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It was spread through trade with foreign people.
Their spread around the Mediterranean Sea.
The Phoenician trading ship spread their writing system around the Mediterranean Sea.
The alphabet simplifies trade between people that spoke different languages. Phoenician sea trade,in return ,helped the alphabet to spread
The Phoenician traders spread the alphabet through the Mediterranean Sea. It was taken up by the Greeks and adapted as their own alphabet, and they spread this to their own colonies.
The Phoenician alphabet is the oldest verified consonantal alphabet, dating to approximately 1200 BCE. The alphabet was used by the ancient civilization of Phoenicia and through their traveling and colonization came to widespread use. The Phoenician alphabet consisted of 22 letters, many of which form the basis of the greek alphabet and therefore the Latin and English alphabets currently in use.
There were no previous alphabets. Prior to the Phoenician alphabet, writing systems involved thousands of pictures to represesent words.