PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?message-squaremessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1243arrow-down17
arrow-up1236arrow-down1message-squareIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squarepohart@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoThis is what I thought. From Hebrew.
minus-squareNoMoreLurking@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year agoFrom Phoenician actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIn all honesty, I don’t know which of the two languages is older.
minus-squareastraeus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoHebrew is slightly older than Greek but it was also more isolated than Greek and likely did not have much influence on Greek. As another commenter pointed out, Phoenician is the accepted source for the Greek alphabet.
This is what I thought. From Hebrew.
From Phoenician actually
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
In all honesty, I don’t know which of the two languages is older.
Hebrew is slightly older than Greek but it was also more isolated than Greek and likely did not have much influence on Greek. As another commenter pointed out, Phoenician is the accepted source for the Greek alphabet.