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- History_of_the_alphabet abstract "The history of alphabetic writing goes back to the consonantal writing system used for Semitic languages in the Levant in the 2nd millennium B.C. Most or nearly all alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today ultimately go back to this Semitic proto-alphabet. Its first origins can be traced back to a Proto-Sinaitic script developed in Ancient Egypt to represent the language of Semitic-speaking workers in Egypt. This script was partly influenced by the older Egyptian hieratic, a cursive script related to Egyptian hieroglyphs.Mainly through Phoenician and Aramaic, two closely related members of the Semitic family of scripts that were in use during the early first millennium BC, the Semitic alphabet became the ancestor of multiple writing systems across the Middle East, Europe, northern Africa and South Asia.Some modern authors distinguish between consonantal scripts of the Semitic type, called "abjads", and "true alphabets" in the narrow sense, the distinguishing criterion being that true alphabets consistently assign letters to both consonants and vowels on an equal basis, while in an abjad each symbol usually stands for a consonant. In this sense, the first true alphabet was the Greek alphabet, which was adapted from the Phoenician. Latin, the most widely used alphabet today, in turn derives from the Greek.West Semitic people from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean (where Phoenician and Hebrew groups lived) are usually credited with developing the world's first alphabet. It was a short, 22-character list with (1)names and (2)a fixed order for characters that could (3)easily be memorized. This "alphabet" was spread by Phoenician traders and then modified by the inclusion of vowels, by the Greeks, whose first 2 letters, alpha and beta were put together to form the name "alphabet."".
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- History_of_the_alphabet wikiPageExternalLink alphabet.
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- History_of_the_alphabet subject Category:Alphabets.
- History_of_the_alphabet subject Category:History_of_writing.
- History_of_the_alphabet comment "The history of alphabetic writing goes back to the consonantal writing system used for Semitic languages in the Levant in the 2nd millennium B.C. Most or nearly all alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today ultimately go back to this Semitic proto-alphabet. Its first origins can be traced back to a Proto-Sinaitic script developed in Ancient Egypt to represent the language of Semitic-speaking workers in Egypt.".
- History_of_the_alphabet label "Geschichte des Alphabets".
- History_of_the_alphabet label "Historia del alfabeto".
- History_of_the_alphabet label "History of the alphabet".
- History_of_the_alphabet label "História do alfabeto".
- History_of_the_alphabet label "Storia dell'alfabeto".
- History_of_the_alphabet label "История алфавита".
- History_of_the_alphabet label "تاريخ الأبجدية".
- History_of_the_alphabet label "字母的歷史".
- History_of_the_alphabet label "音素文字の歴史".
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- History_of_the_alphabet sameAs Historia_del_alfabeto.
- History_of_the_alphabet sameAs Sejarah_huruf.
- History_of_the_alphabet sameAs Storia_dell'alfabeto.
- History_of_the_alphabet sameAs 音素文字の歴史.
- History_of_the_alphabet sameAs História_do_alfabeto.
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