i would like to know what´s the most ancient alphabet known...?

Answer 1

The earliest alphabet is the proto-Canaanite from around 1700 BC. All other form of writing before that are either pictographic (Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Chinese, Indus Valley) or syllabic (Sumerian/Akkadian cuneiform, Minoan Linear A and B).

Answer 2

Phoenician is the earliest alphabet in the strictest sense. Proto-canaanite, from which Phoenician evolved, was not an alphabet, it was pictographic. That is, its symbols represented objects or concepts, and were not individually representative of specific sounds that could be formed into words.

"The earliest known (and deciphered) ALL-alphabetic language is Cretan Linear A, the language on which most Mediterranean written languages are based, although with differing symbols for each letter. The Phoenician alphabet owes its character to Cretan Linear A. And until Cretan Linear A was completely deciphered it held the crown for earliest all-alphabetic language."

This is completely wrong in that Linear A has still not been deciphered and also in that Phoenician did not evolve from it.

Answer 3

There are four claimants.

Early Chinese pictographs included alphabetic elements some 5,000 years ago. And Sumerian, the cuneiform on which all other cuneiform writings are based, is about the same age. It was more alphabetic in content than Chinese, but still included many pictographic elements.

The earliest known (and deciphered) ALL-alphabetic language is Cretan Linear A, the language on which most Mediterranean written languages are based, although with differing symbols for each letter. The Phoenician alphabet owes its character to Cretan Linear A. And until Cretan Linear A was completely deciphered it held the crown for earliest all-alphabetic language.

So take your pick.

Answer 4

Ancient graffiti may display oldest alphabet
LOS ANGELES (AP) Researchers have photographed what may be the earliest known alphabetical writing — graffiti carved by Semitic soldiers on an Egyptian cliff wall about 4,000 years ago.

Two inscriptions, which have not been deciphered may contain at least one man's name and perhaps a reference to God.

Bruce Zuckerman and Marilyn Lundberg, of the University of Southern California specialize in photographing ancient documents and inscriptions. They were enlisted to photograph the graffiti in June.

The pictures and researchers' interpretations were presented last week at a conference of the American Oriental Society.

Acts of minor vandalism in their time, the figures scrawled by Semitic soldiers around the 19th century B.C. appear to be proof that alphabetical writing is nearly 200 years older than originally believed, said Egyptologist John Coleman Darnell of Yale University.

The system of characters used is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including the English, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek letters.

Answer 5

the first phonetic alphabet (stumbled on in about 1700 BC) is drastically belived to be Semitic from the correct Egypt section the position it became stumbled on; this is going to easily advanced into Phoenician which became the first major phonemic script. 2 different drastically used writing platforms on the time, Cuneiform and Egyptian used hieroglyphs and had no vowels, hence ought to not be seen alphabets. in spite of the indisputable fact that, the Semitic script contained about 2 dozen different letters, making it a script straightforward adequate for consumer-pleasant investors to study. yet another benefit to Phoenician became that it ought to nicely be used to write down many alternative languages, because it recorded words phonetically. The script became spread with the help of the Phoenicians, whose Thalassocracy allowed the script to be spread with the help of the Mediterranean. In Greece, the script became changed to characteristic the vowels, giving upward push to the first real alphabet. The Greeks took letters which failed to signify sounds that existed in Greek, and adjusted them to signify the vowels. This marks the introduction of a "real" alphabet, with the presence of both vowels and consonants as specific symbols in a unmarried script. in spite of the indisputable fact that, INDIGO dye has been used for over 5000 years around the international made fromthe dried powder of the indigo plant. So those 2 issues at the instantaneous are not correct in any way.

Answer 6

Ancient Canaanite,

Answer 7

North Semitic Alphabets....

Answer 8

Cuneiform is the oldest form of writing. It was a bunch of wedge shaped symbols pressed into clay tablets, such as the epic of Gilgamesh, and a whole bunch of ancient tax documents. Ancient Caananite is based on Cuneiform. Some claim that the cuneiform system was based on a more ancient system of symbols, similar to chinese, but we have no reliable evidence for that more ancient system.

Answer 9

alphabets from Mesopatamia. But Proto-Canaanite was major.

Answer 10

From which awareness of being. Do you mean Sanskrit or of the other ancients that we are brainwashed in thinking did not exist?ie. Atlantis, Hu, etc. etc.