Who invented the alphabet system of writing?

Question

Meaning the letters, such as a, b, c, d, e ,f , g, .....
Not who had signs similar to the lettes but who invented them!
Thank you!

Answer 1

The first writing comes to us from the Sumerians before Egyptian script
But in reference to the question the Phoenician (no vowels) had the script what can be traced as origins of Linear B (Greek)
Linear B added vowels to the script (a , e, ee, i, o, oo, u) 7 in total plus alphabet itself is alpha beta (a later invention by scholars)

alpha (a), beta(b), gamma(g), Delta (d).... with 24 letters no c (kappa= k) no f (ph) etc

I do not believe that the Entruscan adopted it soley from Magna Graecia (greater Greece) in Italy, but it seems to have spread throughout italy.

Nonetheless in Latium (Rome) the combination of Linear B and Latin gives us a more recognisable form we see today, so to the second part of Question id have to say Linear B and Latin.

Answer 2

Well, according to historic and archaeological evidence, Greeks more than 3,500 years ago had developed the alphabetic system of writing!
For example, in the Iliad, Homer mentions the inventor of certain letters, who was among the leaders of armies against Troy! Thus, I think the Greeks have invented the alphabet.
Others, never used alphabetic system, but anything from hieroglyphic to pictogram! None had vowels and the closest they went was syllable-symbols, not letters!

Answer 3

The history of the alphabet starts in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE the Egyptians had developed a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent the individual consonants of their language, plus a 23rd that seems to have represented word-initial or word-final vowels. These glyphs were used as pronunciation guides for logograms, to write grammatical inflections, and, later, to transcribe loan words and foreign names.

However, although alphabetic in nature, the original Egyptian system was not used for purely alphabetic writing. The first purely alphabetic script is thought to have been developed in central Egypt around 2000 BCE for or by Semitic workers.

Over the next five centuries this Semitic alphabet spread north. All subsequent alphabets around the world have either descended from it, or been inspired by one of its descendants, with the possible exception of the Meroitic alphabet, a 3rd century BCE Nubian adaptation of hieroglyphs.

Answer 4

The alphabetic writing takes its origin from Phoenicians. They passed alphabet to Greeks and then via Etruscians it was taken by Romans.

Answer 5

the romans

Answer 6

egyptians