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Phoenician script
- Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems.
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1 day ago · Greek has been written in the Greek alphabet since approximately the 9th century BC. It was created by modifying the Phoenician alphabet , with the innovation of adopting certain letters to represent the vowels.
4 days ago · The word alphabet comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta. It was first used, in its Latin form, alphabetum, by Tertullian during the 2nd–3rd century CE and by St. Jerome.
- An alphabet is a set of graphs or characters used to represent the phonemic structure of a language. In most alphabets, the characters are arranged...
- The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 letters. All are consonants, though four of them (alef, he, waw, and yod) are also employed to represent long vo...
- The Arabic alphabet probably originated some time in the 4th century CE, but the earliest known extant Arabic writing is a trilingual inscription—G...
- The Latin-Turkish alphabet was introduced in 1928 and became general throughout Turkey in 1930. It contains 29 letters, of which two vowels (ö and...
2 days ago · The alphabet was adopted and modified by the Greeks probably in the eighth century BC. This most likely did not occur in a single instance but the process of commercial exchange. The legendary Phoenician hero Cadmus is credited with bringing the alphabet to Greece.
4 days ago · Developed around 1050 BCE, it was a consonant-based script with 22 characters. The simplicity and efficiency of the Phoenician alphabet made it easy to learn and adapt, facilitating its spread throughout the Mediterranean region. The Evolution of the Alphabet. Greek Alphabet.
3 days ago · These ancient Greek letters appear in other fields too, including mathematics (most famously perhaps, pi) and astronomy (where Greek letters are used to designate the brightest stars in a constellation). Sadly, we’re probably all nowadays familiar with the use of Greek letters to denote variants of...
6 days ago · The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, [a] the Horn of Africa, [b] [c] Malta, [d] and in large immigrant and expatriate ...
3 days ago · Sanskrit language, an Old Indo-Aryan language in which the most ancient documents are the Vedas, composed in what is called Vedic Sanskrit. In its grammatical structure, Sanskrit is similar to other early Indo-European languages such as Greek and Latin.
