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The Greek alphabet was not the first writing system, or even the first alphabet, but it was unique in its time because it was the first true alphabet in the narrowest sense of the word: it contained symbols that represented every possible sound in the language.

Its importance stems from the fact that previous writing systems either didn't represent sounds at all (such as the pictograms of cuneiform or hieroglyphics), or only represented the consonants of the language (Phoenician and Hebrew). Greek represented consonants and vowels.

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