Who created the alphabet?

Answer 1

Brilliant Question !

I don't know but the word comes from the first two letters of Greek - alpha and beta

Answer 2

Our current English alphabet was created by the Phoenecians people who lived on the Mediterranian coast in what is now Israel and Lebanon. They were a sea-going people who liked to trade and set up colonies all over the Mediterranean, Carthage was one of their most well known colonies. The Phonetic style of writing influenced many of the other writing styles around the Near East and Southern Europe, including the Greeks and Romans.

The name alphabet comes from the Greeks whose first two letters are Alpha and Beta. Those were combined and you get Alphabet

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 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 5

The Egyptians.

About 3700 years ago, West Semitic-speaking people of the Sinai became workers or slaves under the sway of Egyptian rule. The Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols these Semitic speakers saw made an impression on them, and encouraged the adoption of a limited number of hieroglyphics to write down sounds in their language. Because phonetic Egyptian hieroglyphs only recorded the consonants, and not the vowels, the Sinaitic script also adopted this convention. On the other hand, unlike hieroglyphs which had multi-consonant signs, the Sinaitic script only used single consonants letters.

The result is a strange system whose symbols were very similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs, but recorded a language related to Phoenician and Hebrew. The result was the Proto-Sinaitic, also known as Proto-Sinaitic.

What made this the beginning of the alphabet, and not Egyptian hieroglyphs themselves? The result is simple as the Greek letter's name alpha. The word alpha in Greek does not mean anything at all, but in the original West Semitic form 'aleph it carried the meaning of "ox". In fact, it is not too hard to invert the letter A and imagine it as the head of an ox.

An ox-head is exactly the Egyptian hieroglyph Proto-Sinaitic adopted to represent the sound /'/ (glottal stop) as in 'aleph. However, the Proto-Sinaitics did not adopt the sound of the hieroglyphic. The "ox" sign did not represent the glottal stop /'/ in Egyptian. Instead, they chose the shape of the glyph (an ox) and give it the value of /'/ which is the first sound in 'aleph. This is called the acrophonic principle in case you're not familiar with linguistics.

Similarly, beth, which meant "house" and was written with sign of a house, was used to write the sound /b/. Another good example is the sound /m/, represented by the symbol of water and called mem or "water" in West Semitic. One can still visualize water's rippling in the letter M.

Answer 6

The first alphabet was probably created by the Phoenicians. The Greeks improved the alphabet by adding vowels.

Answer 7

The alphabet wasnt created by one single person, it was created through time, chopping ans changing via different cultures, you should ask "whats the history of the alphabet" rather than WHO created it!

Answer 8

I agree with bob there. The first people to create the alphabet as we know today, are the Phoenecians who live in 3000 B.C. The letter O is used by the Phoenicians and is still used today.

Answer 9

Which Alphabet? Roman, Greek, Chinese, Arabic? The clue is in the names.

Answer 10

The Greeks

Answer 11

not exactly sure but I would look at hebrew. the language is very ancient and most of the letters have similar sound and placement to the english alphabet.