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To: SunkenCiv

>>> Back then, ABC was still ‘-b-g (’aleph-beth-gimel). This sequence was favored by the Phoenicians who passed it on to the Greeks, together with the alphabet itself. Thus a-b-g found its way to the later alphabets inspired by the Greek and Latin ones. <<<

The Hebrew alphabet begins with aleph-beth-gimel.

I wonder why that isn’t mentioned?


12 posted on 10/24/2015 6:31:09 PM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Just my opinion and only worth what you paid for it.)
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To: JJ_Folderol

It’s not mentioned because Hebrew and Phoenician (Canaanite) are the same language, more or less (although the letter forms now used for Hebrew were adopted later from Aramaic).


13 posted on 10/24/2015 6:44:45 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: JJ_Folderol

Gee, I wonder. /s It’s not unlikely that the Phoenicians got it from the Hebrews, who derived it from Egyptian writing.


14 posted on 10/24/2015 6:51:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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