may 14, 1300 BC - The Phoenician alphabet, is the oldest verified alphabet. It consits of 22 letters, all consonants.
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Derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
One of the most widely used writing systems, spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world, where it evolved and was assimilated by many other cultures:
- The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
The Aramaic alphabet and its variant the Modern Hebrew script .
The Greek alphabet (and by extension its descendants, such as Latin, Cyrillic, Runic, and Coptic) was also derived from Phoenician.
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