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The earliest alphabet yet found was found on a stone uncovered at a site in Israel. It has not yet been decided which people it belonged to. (See Link 1)

The earliest alphabet is generally accepted to come from the "Proto-Sinaitic" language. (See Link 2 for a family tree)

2006-11-20 04:02:26 · answer #1 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0 0

The Sumerians were long believed to have the first alphabet, but recently, Egyptologists found a building which was apparently a wine salesman's store. Different containers had clay tags on them which do not appear to be just pictograms. They are similar to writing used later by the Egyptians, and may have been an earlier version. If this is correct, it predates Sumerian writing.

2006-11-21 12:02:43 · answer #2 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0 0

The earliest known alphabet is what is known as the proto-Canaanite alphabet, and first appeared in what is now Israel/Palestine in around 1700 BCE. The earliest known written language is the Sumerian proto-Cuneiform, of which our earliest example dates to around 3400 BCE (from the city of Uruk in southern Iraq). It was a pictogram style script, and as our example was fully formed, writing must have been in development for a long while previously.

2006-11-20 13:30:58 · answer #3 · answered by Diocletian 2 · 0 0

Definitely the Greek!
After all all the alphabets have derived from the Greek alphabets!
Greeks had many dialects, and each new language/ alphabet was selecting letters, grammar, etc., from some of the Greek dialects; like Latin alphabet is the alphabet of Kyme!

2006-11-20 11:55:39 · answer #4 · answered by soubassakis 6 · 0 0

I think it was the Phoenician alphabet

2006-11-20 12:06:45 · answer #5 · answered by juicybluesky 2 · 0 0

was it the cuneiform alphabet? if i'm not mistaken, i think the sumerians invented cuneiform.

2006-11-20 12:02:57 · answer #6 · answered by waltzang 3 · 0 0

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