3 ms·
> […] the letter ordering from your home alphabet just for simplicity. Other invented scripts like Georgian and Armenian, also retain the Greek alphabet orderin
by inkyoto 2y ago
> […] the letter ordering from your home alphabet just for simplicity. Other invented scripts like Georgian and Armenian, also retain the Greek alphabet ordering.
The Greek alphabet ordering ascends to the Phoenician alphabet ordering, which has inherited it from the Proto-Sinaic alphabet[0]. It remains a vexing enigma – why letters were originally arranged in the order that we know today.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet#Letter_names_and_order https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_alphabet#Lett...
- ithkuil 2y agoI find it more fascinating why the order was retained so faithfully (modulo minor drifts that accrued over time).
- kgeist 2y agoAs far as I know, people have always practiced/learned alphabets by reciting/writing them one-by-one, in the "standard order", over and over again. We did it ourselves at school, too. Maybe that's why it's so retained - we just can't imagine any other order :) And authors of new alphabets were probably already versed in other alphabets and had to learn their "standard order".