That the alphabet has survived, in one form or another, for so long is a testament to its usefulness and durability—to the genius of it. The Phoenician alphabet was all consonants.

The original “Y” entered the alphabet as “upsilon” or our “U.” Around 100 AD Romans added “Y” to their alphabet, usually to denote something of Greek origins. Z ...

“In the 1930s, the prevailing theory was of an ‘alphabetic bang,'” said Prof Waal, according to The Greek Reporter.. “It was thought that in the eighth century BC, the Greek alphabet as we ...

The Greek alphabet was developed from the Phoenician alphabet and has been in use since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.

As for stubborn people, we know they won't budge one iota, another Greek character. Well, not totally Hellenic. In fact, the Greek people would have taken over the Phoenician alphabet, the oldest ...

In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants. However, by the end of the fourth century BC, the Ionic-based Euclidean alphabet, made up of 24 letters ...

Phoenician city-states shared languages — recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters — religious practices and maritime trading economies.

GHIL'AD: So, when Greek used the alphabet of Phoenician it had to introduce some vowels. JACK: Yes, yes, I see. GHIL'AD: And therefore, we have in Greek we have more letters than in Phoenician.

There will be no Hurricane Pi, Rho, Sigma or Tau.. The Greek alphabet has been retired as a way of identifying tropical storms, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday.. The ...