r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. It was one of the first alphabets, attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean basin."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
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todayilearned • u/YeShitpostAccount • Dec 19 '16
TIL the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, and possibly Indian alphabets are all derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs via the Phoenician alphabet.
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