PlantDadManGuytoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world·10 months agoIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?message-squarearrow-up1255arrow-down18message-square51fedilink
arrow-up1247arrow-down1message-squareIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?PlantDadManGuytoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world·10 months agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squareResol van LemmyEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·10 months agolinkfedilinkIf it isn’t, then where else would the word “alphabet” come from? Oh wait, you could look at the Hebrew alphabet and pretend that the word came from its first two letters: Aleph and Bet.
minus-squareNoMoreLurkingarrow-up15arrow-down0·10 months agolinkfedilinkFrom Phoenician actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
minus-squareDeceptichumarrow-up9arrow-down0·10 months agoedit-210 months agolinkfedilinkFrom 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 LemmyEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down0·10 months agolinkfedilinkIn all honesty, I don’t know which of the two languages is older.
minus-squareastraeusarrow-up4arrow-down0·10 months agolinkfedilinkHebrew 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 LemmyEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·10 months agolinkfedilinkI guess that answers that.
If it isn’t, then where else would the word “alphabet” come from?
Oh wait, you could look at the Hebrew alphabet and pretend that the word came from its first two letters: Aleph and Bet.
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.