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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Phoenician Alphabet

Being at a party yesterday, and when introducing myself as a Lebanese to a Portuguese guy, he loudly said: '' WE OWE YOU THE ALPHABET ''.
It feels nice when someone knows that we Lebanese made the parent script of all western alphabets, and it's the ancestor of all modern alphabets, including Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Greek... Yes, even before the Greek alphabet - Imagine how disappointed my Greek colleague was when I proved to him that Phoenician alphabet is older than his Greek one -


.AlephΑ   BethΒ   GimelCG   DalethD   HeΕ   WawϜYVU
ZayinΖ    HethΗ    TethΘ       YodhJ   Kaphk    LamedhL
MemΜ   NunΝ    SamekhΧ        AyinΟ  PeP   SadekЦ
QophQ   ResR     SinS      TawΤ


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