PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIs the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?message-squaremessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1252arrow-down18
arrow-up1244arrow-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 year agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·1 year agoIf 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-squarepohart@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoThis is what I thought. From Hebrew.
minus-squareNoMoreLurking@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year agoFrom Phoenician actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
minus-squareDeceptichum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-21 year agoFrom 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 Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIn all honesty, I don’t know which of the two languages is older.
minus-squareastraeus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoHebrew 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 Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI 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.