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  1. The letter ‘O’ is unchanged in shape since its adoption in the Phoenician alphabet c. 1300BC.
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    The letter “A” for example, began as an Egyptian hieroglyphic that looks like an animal head with horns. Through Phoenician (c. 1000 BCE), early Greek (c. 750 BCE), and early Latin (c. 500 BCE) periods, the lines that made “A” eventually simplified to become the symbol we know today.
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    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 … See more

    The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used to write Semitic languages in the Levant during the 2nd millennium BC. Nearly all alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today … See more

    Semitic alphabet
    The Proto-Sinaitic script of Egypt has yet to be fully deciphered. However, it may be alphabetic and … See more

    One modern national alphabet that has not been graphically traced back to the Canaanite alphabet is the Maldivian script, which is unique in … See more

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    Two scripts are well attested from before the end of the 4th millennium BC: Mesopotamian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs. … See more

    Greek alphabet
    By the 8th century BC, the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and adapted it to their … See more

    Changes to a new writing medium sometimes caused a break in graphical form, or make the relationship difficult to trace. It is not … See more

     
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