why is ' a' the first english alphabet?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

In ancient Greece, Alpha was the first letter of their alphabet and Omega was the last. The word "alphabetum" is actually Latin word taken from a combination of the Greek letters Alpha and Beta (which was the second letter in the Greek alphabet). Since our language, and especially our writing system, is derived from a combination of Latin (like the Romance languages) and German, the English alphabet is based upon the Latin and Greek. Therefore, it only makes sense that our alphabet would have similar components and even begin with the same letters as its predecessors.

Answer 3

Because it's an evolution from the Greek alphabet. The letter Aa is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. The letter on the left is the capital letter, and the one on the right is the small letter. It's a vowel, and it's pronounced like the a in father, or like what you say when the doctor tells you to open your mouth and say “Aaah.” It is never pronounced like the vowel sound in hat or cake in Greek, but has evolved in the English language to become even more useful with it's long sound! It's a very common sound in the English use of words in order to effectively communicate.

Answer 4

Ever since the dawn of language and thought man must have felt the need to record his ideas and emotions in some permanent form, and he has continued to look for ways of doing this right up to the present day with its gramophone records and magnetic tape. An old Latin saying proves the point : 'The spoken word is forgotten but the written word remains.'

The first alphabets were developed among the populations devoted to agriculture and stock - raising in China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Central America. In Chinese, writing does not approach the name of a thing by breaking its sounds down into letters and syllables but set out to express the thing itself. Written words are direct representations of things or ideas (ideographs) or of particular spoken words (logographs). A different ideograph evolved for each objects. So the Chinese language is based on an enormous number of different caharcters rather than on the letters of an alphabet.
Sumerian writing dates back to 4000 BC and is the most ancient writing known today. It is characterized by its wedge shaped appearance and is called 'cuneiform' from the Latin word cuneus, meaning 'a wedge'. This alphabet enabled men to collect the first libraries. On the left is some Assyrian writing from the eighth century BC. As the illustration shows, the Assyro-Babylonians adopted cuneiform characters from the conquered Sumerians, and its use spread among other contemporary peoples.

Answer 5

why is z the last? and why is l somewhere in the middle? thats just the way they made it. and its not the first alphabet, its the first letter or character. the alphabet is the whole thing

Answer 6

uh as far as i know there is no alphabet named A... maybe you mean why is it the first LETTER in the english alphabet and the reason why is cuz A is a gangster it does what it wants *****.

Answer 7

Maybe it was just the one they wrote down first ha ah ha and at the time they had No idea and just threw em together in the order we know as the alphabet lol

Good Q - something to think about =)

Answer 8

Because the alphabet is in alphabetical order.

Answer 9

Because "a" is the adaptation of the greek "alpha", which was at the start of their alphabet. Why "alpha" was first, I have no idea:)

Answer 10

I didn't know that ' a' was an alphabet. Interesting.