What was the first alphabet?

Answer 1

The earliest alphabet was created by the Egyptians around 2700 BCE. It was a set of 24 hieroglyphics that represented consonant sounds. But they didn't write solely with these "letters." They mixed them with other hieroglyphs that represented whole words.

The Phoenicians were the first to come up with a writing system based ONLY on sounds. It was an Alphabet of 22 consonants and no vowels. This alphabet was established prior to 1050 BCE.

Answer 2

Know one knows for certain, but the first records of a phonetic sound system came from the ancient Egyptians, around 2700 BCE

The Phoenicians were the first to use ONLY a phonetic system.

Answer 3

The history of the alphabet started in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the native speaker.

Answer 4

The Greeks created the first alphabet, while the ancient Sumerians created the first written language.