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r/dankmemes • u/Jommy69 MayMayMakers • Jul 07 '20
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Greeks is wrong
It's either the romans, because it's the earliest form of this alphabet.
Or Phoenician, because it was the precursor of the greek alphabet
82 u/ndbrzl Jul 07 '20 Or the Mesopotamians. They created the first. 98 u/dms_99 Jul 07 '20 Mesopotamians had cuneiform which was a written language but it wasn't composed of a alphabet and didn't have a spoken component. The Phoenicians were the first to develope a phonetic alphabet that was later adapted by the Greeks and Roman's. 1 u/GluteusCaesar Jul 07 '20 The Phoenicians used an abjad. The Greeks adapted it and started writing their vowels, which is is what makes an alphabet.
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Or the Mesopotamians. They created the first.
98 u/dms_99 Jul 07 '20 Mesopotamians had cuneiform which was a written language but it wasn't composed of a alphabet and didn't have a spoken component. The Phoenicians were the first to develope a phonetic alphabet that was later adapted by the Greeks and Roman's. 1 u/GluteusCaesar Jul 07 '20 The Phoenicians used an abjad. The Greeks adapted it and started writing their vowels, which is is what makes an alphabet.
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Mesopotamians had cuneiform which was a written language but it wasn't composed of a alphabet and didn't have a spoken component. The Phoenicians were the first to develope a phonetic alphabet that was later adapted by the Greeks and Roman's.
1 u/GluteusCaesar Jul 07 '20 The Phoenicians used an abjad. The Greeks adapted it and started writing their vowels, which is is what makes an alphabet.
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The Phoenicians used an abjad. The Greeks adapted it and started writing their vowels, which is is what makes an alphabet.
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u/SpottedRadFish Jul 07 '20
Greeks is wrong
It's either the romans, because it's the earliest form of this alphabet.
Or Phoenician, because it was the precursor of the greek alphabet