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Citation needed. (seriously.)

• endtime 17y ago
  Which part? If it helps, I can confirm the part about the roots in Hebrew - I can't type in Hebrew on this computer, but the Hebrew alphabet is, transliterated: aleph, bet (vet), gimel, dalet, hey, vav, zayin, chet, tet, yud, kaf (chaf), lamed, mem, nun, samech, ayin, pey (fey), tzadi, kuf, reish, shin (sin), taf Most letters make the same sound as the beginning of their names, and it's not hard to see the parallel to the Greek alphabet. (Note that in Hebrew, vowels are not letters, just markings above and below the letters. Aleph and ayin used to be guttural letters, but in modern Hebrew they sort of just function as glottal stops.)
  • tokenadult 17y ago
    Yes, there is no doubt whatever that the alphabetical order of Roman script comes from Greek, which in turn gets its alphabetical order from Near East Semitic alphabets.