== The oldest and longest alphabet is the Egyptian alphabet with 45 letters. The Cambodian alphabet has 74 characters. The International Phonetic Alphabet has more: "As of 2007, there are 107 distinct letters and 56 http://www.answers.com/topic/diacritic and http://www.answers.com/topic/prosody-linguistics in the IPA proper. Occasionally symbols are added, removed, or modified by the International Phonetic Association." http://www.answers.com/topic/international-phonetic-alphabet
The vast majority of last names in the world are written with the Latin alphabet, followed by the Cyrillic alphabet.
We use the Latin alphabet, which was based on the Greek Alphabet, which was inspired by the Hebrew 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.
If you are asking what alphabet was used in English prior to the Latin alphabet, the answer is none.
The Greek alphabet, an evolution of the Phoenician. An evolution of the Greek alphabet was the Latin.
Khmer, the language of Cambodia, has the largest alphabet with 74 characters.
There are no English words that contain all the letters of the alphabet.
The vast majority of last names in the world are written with the Latin alphabet, followed by the Cyrillic alphabet.
Chinese has approximately 40000~80000 characters, but in everyday life used only few thousand are used.
I'm not sure, but the answer might be Mongolian, which has been written with the traditional Mongolian alphabet, the Galik alphabet, the Oirat alphabet, the Buryat alphabet, the Phags-pa script, the Soyombo script, the Latin alphabet, and the Cyrillic alphabet, as well as Braille.
The Cambodian alphabet is the world's largest alphabet, with 74 letters. The world's shortest alphabet, is Rotokas, used in the Solomon Islands, has only 12 letters. Hawaiian is the shortest alphabet for a well-known language, with 13 letters.
smallest: zero largest: five thousand
Being from Australia, I know about a place called Bougainville. It is the largest island in the Solomons, a group of South Pacific islands northeast of Australia. Some of the island natives use an alphabet called 'Rotokas', of only 11 letters, the shortest alphabet on earth.This alphabet includes the same five vowels as our alphabet: a, e, i, o, and u. But there are only six consonants in the Bougainville alphabet: b, g, k, p, r, and t.
We use the Latin alphabet, which was based on the Greek Alphabet, which was inspired by the Hebrew Alphabet.
The Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet.
The Phoenician alphabet was the inspiration for the Greek alphabet.
The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from the Greek alphabet, with the addition of several characters from the Hebrew alphabet.