the letters of the alphabet came from the phoenician alphabet.
the letters of the alphabet came from the phoenician alphabet.
where did the letters of the alphabet come from?
the phoenician alphabet
the first consonantal alphabet found emerged around 1800 bce to represent the language of the phoenicians, semitic workers in egypt (see middle bronze age alphabets), and was derived from the alphabetic principles of the egyptian hieroglyphs. our present roman system derives from this phoenician alphabet, which had 22 letters. nineteen of our present letters evolved from the early phoenician forms; letter shapes and order of appearance correspond closely. the greek alphabet, adapted around 800 bce, added four letters. this was the first alphabet assigning letters not only to consonant sounds, but also to vowels. the roman empire brought the development and refinement of our roman alphabet, beginning around 500 bce. the romans added or dropped certain letters to accommodate greek and etruscan words; they also experimented with styles such as cursive when writing in ink. by about the fifth century ce, the beginnings of lowercase letterforms began to emerge in roman writing, but they did not come into common use until the end of the middle ages, a thousand years later.
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neumarkt, south tyrol









































neumarkt (literally "new market"; ; ) is a "comune" (municipality) in south tyrol in northern italy, located about south of the city of bolzano.









































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as of 30 november 2010, it had a population of 5,001 and an area of .









































neumarkt borders the following municipalities: kaltern, kurtatsch, kurtinig, margreid, montan, salorno and tramin.
neumarkt, south tyrol