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  2. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    From the Eastern Greek alphabet, they borrowed Y and Z, which were added to the end of the alphabet because the only time they were used was to write Greek words. The Anglo-Saxons began writing Old English using the Latin alphabet following its introduction alongside Augustine of Canterbury's mission

  3. History of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The Parcae, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos invented seven Greek letters – A B H T I Y. Others say that Mercury invented them from the flight of cranes, which, when they fly, form letters. Palamedes, too, son of Nauplius, invented eleven letters; Simonides, too, invented four letters – O E Z PH; Epicharmus of Sicily, two – P and PS. The ...

  4. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular ... The best-attested Bronze Age alphabet is Ugaritic, invented in Ugarit before the 15th ...

  5. History of the Greek alphabet - Wikipedia

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    This Euclidean alphabet included eta and omega, which concluded the process of adapting the Phoenician script so that all vowels could be written systematically, thus becoming the first 'true' alphabet. [14]

  6. Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The term Latin alphabet may refer to either the alphabet used to write Latin (as described in this article) or other alphabets based on the Latin script, which is the basic set of letters common to the various alphabets descended from the classical Latin alphabet, such as the English alphabet.

  7. Israeli archeologists find ancient comb with 'full sentence'

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    Experts say the discovery shines new light on some of humanity’s earliest use of the Canaanite alphabet, invented around 1800 B.C. and the foundation of the all successive alphabetic systems ...

  8. Spread of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The Latin script originated in archaic antiquity in the Latium region in central Italy.It is generally held that the Latins, one of many ancient Italic tribes, adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BCE [1] from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy – making the early Latin alphabet one among several Old Italic scripts emerging at the time.

  9. Why Alphabet Stock Keeps Going Up - AOL

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    In a post on Google's blog page Monday, Alphabet was "delighted to announce" that it has invented a new quantum computing chip called Willow. Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) stock opened ...