@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 2 years agoIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?message-square42fedilinkarrow-up1245
arrow-up1245message-squareIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 2 years agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squareResol van LemmylinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoIn all honesty, I don’t know which of the two languages is older.
minus-squareastraeuslinkfedilink4•2 years agoHebrew 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink16•2 years agoFrom Phoenician actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
minus-squareDeceptichumlinkfedilink10•edit-22 years agoFrom Egyptian Hieroglyphs actually. Which the Phoenicians turned into letters, which eventually became our letters. Look, A is a lil upside down cows head hieroglyph.
This is what I thought. From Hebrew.
In all honesty, I don’t know which of the two languages is older.
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.
From Phoenician actually
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
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.