The Flow of Communications
The Alphabet comes from the Greek words Alpha and Beta, which influenced the Roman Latin Alphabet. Because of this, the English Alphabet is known as the Latin Alphabet or Roman Alphabet. No one person or group of people created the English Alphabet.
Who invented the Alphabet - A to Z?
The Phoenicians' alphabetical order makes it easier to learn and share with others. But the Phoenicians and Egyptians used only consonants, as people began to write more and more, and more words were needed to be created to describe different things.
The Greeks accepted vowels:
Vowels, consonants, and the letter "J"
The most important traders were from the Phoenicians - known today as Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
They spread the alphabet to the towns and villages that surrounded the Mediterranean Sea.
The Greek Alphabet looks a lot like ours, but our letters took their final form in Italy. First, the Etruscan people, and then the Romans, adapted Greek letters to fit their language. The Romans spread their language and its alphabet all over modern Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. The earliest example of the Latin alphabet in use is called the duenos inscription and comes from the sixth century BCE, 2,500 years ago. Even then, the Alphabet was still incomplete because Latin didn't have all the sounds that are common today. The most obvious is the letter J, even though the first letter of the first month of the Roman calendar was January.
