Where did the alphabet come from?

Question

I just wonder how the English alphabet was made

Answer 1

The history of the alphabet starts in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the native speaker. These glyphs were used as pronunciation guides for logograms, to write grammatical inflections, and, later, to transcribe loan words and foreign names.

However, although seemingly alphabetic in nature, the original Egyptian uniliterals were not a system and were never used by themselves to encode Egyptian speech. In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently "alphabetic" system is thought by some to have been developed in central Egypt around 1700 BCE for or by Semitic workers, but we cannot read these early writings and their exact nature remain open to interpretation.

Over the next five centuries this Semitic "alphabet" (really an abjad like Phoenician writing) seems to have spread north. All subsequent alphabets around the world with the sole possible exception of Korean Hangul have either descended from it, or been inspired by one of its descendants.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The history of the alphabet starts in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the native speaker. These glyphs were used as pronunciation guides for logograms, to write grammatical inflections, and, later, to transcribe loan words and foreign names.

However, although seemingly alphabetic in nature, the original Egyptian uniliterals were not a system and were never used by themselves to encode Egyptian speech. In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently "alphabetic" system is thought by some to have been developed in central Egypt around 1700 BCE for or by Semitic workers, but we cannot read these early writings and their exact nature remain open to interpretation.

Over the next five centuries this Semitic "alphabet" (really an abjad like Phoenician writing) seems to have spread north. All subsequent alphabets around the world with the sole possible exception of Korean Hangul have either descended from it, or been inspired by one of its descendants.

Answer 4

The alphabet came mainly from the Greeks and Romans. Then it was slowly changed over the centuries to fit the people using it.

Answer 5

It evolved from the earliest languages--- Hieroglyphics, Latin, then Greek/roman, and then started to become the alphabet we are familiar with today. The English language itself is Germanic in nature.

Answer 6

Its derived from the Greek alphabet.

Answer 7

It was based on the Greek alphabet but they based their alphabet on the Phoenician alphabet in 1050 BC.

Answer 8

the first alphabet was invited in Arabian peninsula in Iraq (by the Sumerians 3000 BC) then it developed during ages until it reach the Phoenicians who was famous in sailing and they spread it the Greek took it and developed it and from that the Latin is invited the English come later
the Sumerians invited the language before the Egyptian in 500 years i am sure of it we study that in our history (i am Iraqi) and also the Egyptian it what was discovered

Answer 9

The Greek

Answer 10

Good cut and paste job from wikipedia--once from the guy who failed to give wikipedia credit (his source was "life") and once from the lady who properly gave it credit. Give the points to the cut and paster who gave wikipedia credit. Don't reward the guy who copied, but then claimed his information was from life. All the other answers are wrong.