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Isn't it because in Hebrew (and other ancient languages) the letters are also numbers?
by aalleavitch 7y ago
Isn't it because in Hebrew (and other ancient languages) the letters are also numbers?
- adrian_b 7y agoYes, but the numeric values were attached to the letters much later (providing a means for writing numbers), many hundreds of years after the alphabetic letter order was established.