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According to Herodotus, [14] the Phoenician prince Cadmus was accredited with the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet— phoinikeia grammata 'Phoenician letters'—to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet. Herodotus claims that the Greeks did not know of the Phoenician alphabet before Cadmus.
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Note that ’ and ‘ were originally full consonants in the Phoenician language (glottal stop ʔ and voiced pharyngeal ʕ respectively). Several of the letters were ambiguous (i.e. denoted more than one consonant phoneme) when the Phoenician alphabet was borrowed to write Old Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew, but there is no clear evidence of this ...
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. [5]
The majority of the letters of the Phoenician alphabet were adopted into Greek with much the same sounds as they had had in Phoenician. However, Phoenician, like other Semitic scripts, has a range of consonants, commonly called gutturals, that did not exist in Greek: ʼāleph [ʔ], hē [h, e, a], ḥēth [ħ], and ʽayin [ʕ].
Archaic Greek alphabets; Brahmi script; Etruscan alphabet; Greek alphabet; Hatran Aramaic; History of the Arabic alphabet; History of the Hebrew alphabet; List of Star Driver characters; Old Italic scripts; Paleo-Hebrew alphabet; Phoenician alphabet; Phoenician language; Proto-Sinaitic script; Punic language; Samekh; San (letter) Sigma; Xi ...
Archaic Greek alphabets; Brahmi script; Etruscan alphabet; Greek alphabet; Hatran Aramaic; History of the Arabic alphabet; History of the Hebrew alphabet; History of the Latin script; List of Star Driver characters; Old Italic scripts; Paleo-Hebrew alphabet; Phoenician alphabet; Proto-Sinaitic script; Punic language; R; Rho; Talk:Bible prophecy ...
File:Paleo-hebrew_alphabet.jpg. The original design is a constructivist idealization of the Paleo-Hebrew abjad. I used this project to design the Paleo-Hebrew abjad using Inkscape 0.92. Since the Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew alphabets were practically the same, I also designed Phoenician numerals.