Alphabet
I. INTRODUCTION
Alphabet is set of letters or other symbols, each representing a distinctive sound of a language. These
letters can be combined to write all the words of a language. The letters of an alphabet typically have
names and a fixed order. Alphabets are the most common type of writing in the world today. Only a
few languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, do not use an alphabet.
The first alphabet was probably developed at least 3,500 years ago by people who lived on the
eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and spoke a Semitic language. The earliest surviving alphabet
is that of the Phoenicians (see Phoenicia). Around 3,000 years ago the Phoenician alphabet spread
east to other Semitic peoples and west to the Greeks. The word alphabet comes from alpha and beta,
the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. The Greeks helped spread alphabetic writing to the
Etruscans and the Romans and through much of the rest of the ancient world.
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