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Resol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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pohart@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is what I thought. From Hebrew.

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- NoMoreLurking@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  From Phoenician actually
  
  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
  
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  - Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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- Resol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  In all honesty, I don’t know which of the two languages is older.
  
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  - astraeus@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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    Resol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I guess that answers that.
    
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