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  1. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

    • The order of the letters of the alphabet is attested from the 14th century BC in the town of Ugarit on Syria's northern coast. Tablets found there bear over one thousand cuneiform signs, but these signs are not Babylonian and there are only thirty distinct characters. About twelve of the tablets have the signs set out in alphabetic order. There are two orders found, on… See more

    Overview

    The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used to write Semitic languages in the
    Some … See more

    Predecessors

    Two scripts are well attested from before the end of the 4th millennium BC: Mesopotamian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs were employed in three ways in Ancient Egyptian texts: as logograms … See more

    Consonantal alphabets

    The Proto-Sinaitic script of Egypt has yet to be fully deciphered. However, it may be alphabetic and probably records the Canaanite language. The oldest examples are found as graffiti in the Wadi el-Hol and date to c. 1… See more

    Alphabets with vowels

    By the 8th century BC, the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and adapted it to their own language, creating in the process the first "true" alphabet, in which vowels were accorded equal status with conso… See more

    Graphically independent alphabets

    One modern national alphabet that has not been graphically traced back to the Canaanite alphabet is the Maldivian script, which is unique in that, although it is clearly modeled after Arabic and perhaps other existing alp… See more

    Alphabets in other media

    Changes to a new writing medium sometimes caused a break in graphical form, or make the relationship difficult to trace. It is not immediately obvious that the cuneiform Ugaritic alphabet derives from a prototypica… See more

     
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  1. o
    • According to 2 sources
    The oldest letter in our alphabet is o, which has existed in its present form for more than 3,000 years! J is the last addition to our modern alphabet. Scholars kept it from dictionaries until the late 19th century.
    The letter ‘O’ is unchanged in shape since its adoption in the Phoenician alphabet c. 1300BC. Information from Archives (e.e. 1996). Submitted for use in Scholastic's Modern Marvels. Records change on a daily basis and are not immediately published online.
     
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  3. Oldest letter - Guinness World Records

  4. Oldest alphabet identified as Hebrew - Science News

    Nov 19, 2016 · SAN ANTONIO — The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes.

  5. What is the oldest letters in the world? – TeachersCollegesj

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  7. The Origin of the English Alphabet (and all its 26 letters)

    Jun 20, 2022 · The modern alphabet with 26 letters started in the 16th century. The development of the English alphabet had influences from the Semitic, Phoenician, Greek and Roman scripts. It’s quite interesting to learn how each …

  8. What is the oldest alphabet still in use today? - NCESC

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  10. English Alphabet - Worldometer

  11. The Oldest Alphabetic Writing Ever Found?

  12. "O" is the oldest letter in the alphabet - needtoknowfacts.com

  13. Archaeologists May Have Just Found the Oldest Alphabet Ever

  14. The Oldest Alphabet Is Older Than Scholars Thought » Mosaic

  15. World’s oldest WRITING is found in ancient tomb ... - The US Sun

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  17. Letters of our Alphabet and How They Looked Back Then

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  19. World's oldest ALPHABET is discovered: Ancient 4,400-year-old …

  20. history - If the letter J is only 400–500 years old, was there a J ...