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-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 年前message-square51fedilink
minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·1 年前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.
minus-squareNoMoreLurking@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 年前From Phoenician actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
minus-squareDeceptichum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-21 年前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.
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-up4·1 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.
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.