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[kabumpo]

Read Robert Graves’s “The White Goddess”.
Five is the number of fingers, the alphabet began on segments of the fingers.

[rmlew]

Oldest Greek writting is from ~800 BCE. The Wadi el-Hol inscriptions are 1000 years older as are the Serabit inscriptions. I am not, as some fools have, going to suggest that the hbrw/Hebrew/Israelites created the alphabest. Rather the Canaanites, Phonecians, and the Canaanites in Egypt and the Sinai did. Or rather these groups created thr oldest known alphabets. Herodotus claimed that a Canaanite prince gave the alphabet to the Greeks. The names “Alpha-bet” and phonics are caled these for a reason.
Case closed.

[GenXteacher]

Phoenicians all the way. They were traders who didn’t have time for a cumbersome system of hieroglyphics.