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
Avestan alphabet alphabet, with explicit characters for vowels, and allowed for phonetic disambiguation of allophones. The alphabet included many characters ("a", "i", "k", "t", "p", "b", "m", "n", "r", "s", "z", "š", "x") from cursive Pahlavi, while some ("ā", "γ") are characters that only exist in the Psalter Pahlavi variant (in cursive Pahlavi "γ" and "k" have the same symbol). Some of the vowels, such as "ə" appear to derive from Greek minuscules. Avestan "o" is a special form of Pahlavi "l" that exists only in Aramaic signs. Some letters (e.g. "ŋ́", "ṇ", "ẏ", "v"), are free inventions. Avestan script, like Pahlavi