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The Hebrew alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians.
They did a lot! One invention is the alphabet. Many people think that the Greeks did that, but really the Phoenicians did, and later, the Greeks adopted the Phoenicians alphabet and changed it. That's the alphabet we use today!
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The Phoenicians invented the alphabet in the 1900's B.C.E.
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The current consensus is that the Greeks got the alphabet from the Phoenicians.
The Greeks did not invent the alphabet. The alphabet was invented by the Phoenicians; the Greeks merely adapted the Phoenician alphabet to their own language.The Phoenician alphabet was originally a syllabary, but because of sound changes in the language it evolved into an alphabet.