The Phoenician alphabet with corresponding Latin letters It was created by Semitic-speaking workers and slaves in the Sinai Peninsula in modern-day Egypt, by selecting a small number of hieroglyphs commonly seen in their Egyptian surroundings to describe the sounds, as opposed to the semantic values of the Canaanite languages.
The first fully phonemic script, the Proto-Sinaitic script, which developed into the Phoenician alphabet, is considered to be the first alphabet and is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, abjads, and abugidas, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and possibly Brahmic. The short uniliteral signs are used to write pronunciation guides for logograms, or a character that represents a word, or morpheme, and later on, being used to write foreign words. The Egyptians have created the first alphabet in a technical sense. Not all writing systems represent language in this way in a syllabary, each character represents a syllable, and logographic systems use characters to represent words, morphemes, or other semantic units. For other uses, see Alphabet (disambiguation).Īn alphabet is a standardized set of basic written graphemes (called letters) representing phonemes, units of sounds that distinguish words, of certain spoken languages. For the English alphabet in particular, see English alphabet. This article is about alphabets as a whole.
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