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What was in the Phoenician alphabet?

It was the first system of characters for phoenetic writing, on which Greek, Latin and modern European writing developed.


Were the Greek Egyptian and Hebrew languages used to compose the alphabet?

Not really, no. The First modern, fully alphabetic writing system (including vowels) was the Greek alphabet, which was inspired by the Phoenician alphabet, which only had consonants.


How did the Egyptians writing system compare with the Mesopotamia system?

Egyptian hieroglyphs are pictographs that correspond the sound of the first syllable of the thing being depicted. Phoenician cuneiform writing uses abstract symbols to correspond with spoken sounds. The latter evolved into the Greek alphabet, then the Roman alphabet, and then into the modern Western alphabet.


What did the Phoenicians use as their writing system?

An alphabet.


Who developed a writing system made up of 22 characters?

The Phoenicians are credited with developing a writing system made up of 22 characters known as the Phoenician alphabet. This alphabet served as the basis for many modern writing systems, including Greek and Latin.


What is the writing system of egypt?

There have been five different writing systems in Egypt at different periods since earliest times:HieroglyphsHieratic scriptDemotic scriptCoptic scriptArabic


How did the Egyptian writing system compare with the Mesopotamia?

Egyptian hieroglyphs are pictographs that correspond the sound of the first syllable of the thing being depicted. Phoenician cuneiform writing uses abstract symbols to correspond with spoken sounds. The latter evolved into the Greek alphabet, then the Roman alphabet, and then into the modern Western alphabet.


Who were the last people to modify the Egyptian alphabet?

The Egyptians did not have an alphabet - their writing system was much more complex than that. The first alphabet was developed in the Sinai region around 1500 BC, using signs resembling some Egyptian hieroglyphs, but with different sound values. Proto-Canaanite script followed, then Ugaritic, Phoenician, many different Greek scripts, Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, Nabatean, Punic and many other alphabets. The final stages were modern European (Roman), Modern Arabic, Modern Hebrew and Modern Amharic.


How are the Phoenician alphabet and cuneiform writing different?

The Phoenician Alphabet was a phonetic system with 22 letters that represent consonants. The Cuneiform system used pictographs to represent entire words and concepts, and had many thousands of characters.


How are Phoenician alphabet and cuniform writing different?

By this time it consisted of about 700 symbol's that stood for words or syllable's about 1400b.c.,the Phoenicians had developed 22 simple characters for the entire writing system. Each character stood for a consonant.* Later,the Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician alphabet.


How was the writing system used in ancient Rome?

Not only did all of the Romance languages evolve from Latin, but in the 19th century, some English grammarians decided that Latin was the perfect language and decided to rewrite the rules of English to make it more like Latin. So, such rules as not putting prepositions at the ends of sentences and not splitting infinitives (though that one does get disregarded in more poetic English. Star Trek wouldn't be the same without it) come straight out of Latin. Generally, with Romance languages and English, that which is considered to be better grammar is more closely related to Latin.


Did the Native Americans have a righting system?

Yes and a no because they sometimes used symbols and one grope made a different writing system similar to the American Alphabet.