Yes, an alphabet was used in Ugarit that may have been invented first. It arose from cuneiform and its ancestors died out long ago. The "Phoenician" alphabet us

Yes, an alphabet was used in Ugarit that may have been invented first. It arose from cuneiform and its ancestors died out long ago. The "Phoenician" alphabet used for archaic Hebrew and which later developed into the Greek and Latin scripts is what's being discussed here.