Alphabet all alphabets in the West. The vowels have independent letter forms separate from those of consonants; therefore it was the first true alphabet. The Greeks chose letters representing sounds that did not exist in Greek to represent vowels. Vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script that was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols, including 5 vowels. In its early years, there were many variants of the Greek alphabet, a situation that caused many different alphabets to evolve from it. The Greek alphabet, in its Euboean form, was
Silent English alphabet Silent English alphabet A silent English alphabet is a list of English words, each containing a silent letter from A to Z. The term was coined by the linguist John Higgins who produced an early version of such a list in 1983. There are many reasons why English spelling has such a high usage of silent letters. English has been borrowing words when needed from more than 350 other languages. Some of those words had sounds not used in English, and the spelling was not always adapted to reflect this. An example is the sometimes-silent "t" in tsunami. After the