Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?

• 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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