• Question: Who created the letters like ABC

    Asked by alesha to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Alessandro Guazzi

      Alessandro Guazzi answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      The abc, or alphabet system, is used in languages in which words are made up of letters which each have a unique sound.

      The European alphabet probably originated somewhere in the present-day Middle-East, was used by the Phonecians (an ancient seafaring population that founded Carthage and did a lot of trading), and spread to the Greeks, who adopted it and changed it a bit. Then it was used to write latin, and we’ve now got it because of that!

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