> According to who? Linguists call it the invention of the alphabet and think it highly significant. Why should I listen to your claim? I’m not really sure wha

> According to who? Linguists call it the invention of the alphabet and think it highly significant. Why should I listen to your claim? I’m not really sure what your argument is here. Linguists have basically defined “alphabet” to mean the symbols the Greeks used (by deciding to require symbols for vowels in an “alphabet”). That in no way means they think the Greeks are the inventors or even the main contributors to the overall concept. It’s just a starting point. Besides people usually just refer to the Phoenician abjad as the Phoenician alphabet. The fact that they didn’t use vowels didn’t mean it was less developed or anything. It just means it was adapted to the Phoenician language. Were Phoenician around today they could very well still have no symbols for vowels. That said, I’ll let you choose for yourself how important you think this all is. > Isn't alpha a vowel, and thus not in the abjad? Maybe the Greeks re-purposed alpha? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet Look at the letter names in the section “Table of Letters”. Look familiar?