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> as the first phonetic alphabet I thought the Phoenician are credited for the alphabet. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_language https://en.wiki
by csomar 5y ago
> as the first phonetic alphabet
I thought the Phoenician are credited for the alphabet. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_language
> The Phoenician alphabet was spread to Greece during this period, where it became the source of all modern European scripts.
- wolverine876 5y agoThat was the precursor without vowels, IIRC. In my very limited experience, more experts seem to say the Greek alphabet was the first that qualified as such. But really, 'who was first' is a matter of definition, of course.
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