PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 11 months agoIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?message-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down17
arrow-up1243arrow-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 · 11 months agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squarepohart@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoThis is what I thought. From Hebrew.
minus-squareNoMoreLurking@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up15·11 months agoFrom Phoenician actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
minus-squareDeceptichum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-211 months agoFrom Egyptian Hieroglyphs actually. Which the Phoenicians turned into letters, which eventually became our letters. Look, A is a lil upside down cows head hieroglyph.
minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoIn all honesty, I don’t know which of the two languages is older.
minus-squareastraeus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months 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.
minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI guess that answers that.
This is what I thought. From Hebrew.
From Phoenician actually
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
From Egyptian Hieroglyphs actually.
Which the Phoenicians turned into letters, which eventually became our letters.
Look, A is a lil upside down cows head hieroglyph.
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.
I guess that answers that.