History of the alphabet

Chart showing details of four alphabets' descent from Phoenician abjad, from left to right Latin, Greek, original Phoenician, Hebrew, Arabic.

The history of the alphabet goes back to a writing system for consonants. This was used for Semitic languages in the Levant in the 2nd millennium BC.[1]

  1. Sampson, Geoffrey 1985. Writing systems: a linguistic introduction. Stanford University Press, p77. ISBN 0-8047-1254-9

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