Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If it isn’t, then where else would the word “alphabet” come from?
Oh wait, you could look at the Hebrew alphabet and pretend that the word came from its first two letters: Aleph and Bet.
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If it isn’t, then where else would the word “alphabet” come from?
Oh wait, you could look at the Hebrew alphabet and pretend that the word came from its first two letters: Aleph and Bet.
pohart@programming.dev 6 months ago
This is what I thought. From Hebrew.
NoMoreLurking@startrek.website 6 months ago
From Phoenician actually
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
Deceptichum@kbin.social 6 months ago
From Egyptian Hieroglyphs actually.
Which the Phoenicians turned into letters, which eventually became our letters.
Look, A is a lil upside down cows head hieroglyph.
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In all honesty, I don’t know which of the two languages is older.
astraeus@programming.dev 6 months ago
Hebrew is slightly older than Greek but it was also more isolated than Greek and likely did not have much influence on Greek. As another commenter pointed out, Phoenician is the accepted source for the Greek alphabet.
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I guess that answers that.