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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.

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What is the phoenician alphabet?

It is the first alphabet, adopted and adapted by the Greeks and Romans, and is the basis of our alphabet today. It took hold because it gave an accurate and economical alternative to the cumbersome pictograms and syllabic writings which it replaced.


How did the Phoenician alphabet connect with the future?

It became the basis for the Greek and Latin alphabets, and so today's alphabets.


How did the Phoenician alphabet spread throughout the world?

Simply, it provided good influence to later phonetic languages like Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, and Greek as well as indirect influence to most languages written in today. The Phoenician alphabet is considered the first real alphabet. Alphabets are undeniably very beneficial to writing, learning, and speaking a language, which is why the Phoenician language was important.


What did the Phoenicians have to do with the alphabet?

They invented an alphabet and it was later adapted by the Greeks and Romans and it so became the basis of the alphabets we use today.


Who and when invented Latin alphabet?

AnswerThe Latin Alphabet has Phoenician origin and it passed indirectly to the Latins: Greeks were the first to adapt and modify the alphabet from Phoenicians and then they passed it to the Etruscans, who they also modified it. Latin Alphabet uses both Etruscan and Greek elements but it was further modified by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.However, both Greek and Latin alphabets have significant differences from the Phoenician, which for example had only consonant sounds. Greeks modified the scripts so that they would represent vowel phonemes as well.The Phoenician alphabet appeared around the 11th century BC and it is believed, without any significant proof, that it is relevant to the Egyptian hieroglyphs through the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet.

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How did the Phoenician alphabet influence the alphabet used for English today?

It was modified into Greek and Roman alphabets, and so is a basic fore-runner of the English alphabet.


Why is -a- the first letter of the English alphabet?

The English alphabet is a modified version of the Latin alphabet also called the Roman alphabet. This was developed from the Greek alphabet and the letter 'Alpha' or 'A' is the first letter in the Greek alphabet so it carried over.


How are the Phoenician alphabet and cuneiform same?

Those were very different. Cuneiform was hard to learn with many symbols. The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters so it was easier to master.


How do you translate English to Phoenician?

You learn both the the Phoenician and English alphabets and the Phoenician and English languages. Then you can move from one to the other.


What is the phoenician alphabet?

It is the first alphabet, adopted and adapted by the Greeks and Romans, and is the basis of our alphabet today. It took hold because it gave an accurate and economical alternative to the cumbersome pictograms and syllabic writings which it replaced.


How did Phoenician people write in?

They invented an alphabet in about 1000 BCE which became the basis of the Greek and latin alphabets, and so our alphabet of today.


How are the Phoenician alphabet and cuneiform writting different?

the Phoenician alphabet had symbols to represent consonant sounds, like the alphabet we have now. Cuneiform has symbols to represent full words, not consonant sounds, so it's a lot harder to learn.


Why is the Phoenician alphabet significant?

It formed the basis of the Greek and Roman alphabets, and so our alphabets of today.


What do the cuneiform and the Phoenician have in common?

Those were very different. Cuneiform was hard to learn with many symbols. The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters so it was easier to mast


How did the Phoenician alphabet connect with the future?

It became the basis for the Greek and Latin alphabets, and so today's alphabets.


Where does the word alphabet originate from?

The English alphabet was formed when the Romans invaded Anglo-Saxon England. The Anglo-Saxons already had a runic alphabet with their Old English but quickly absorbed the Latin. Anglo-Saxon Old English was comprised of runes, or symbols for sounds, much like the Latin alphabet so it was easy for them to combine.


Why did the Phoenician alphabet impact on many civilizations?

It became the basis of the Greel and Latin alphabets, and so of our alphabets today.