PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 年前Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1247arrow-down18
arrow-up1239arrow-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 年前message-square47fedilink
minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 年前In all honesty, I don’t know which of the two languages is older.
minus-squareastraeus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 年前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.
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.