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
Kaddare alphabet resemblance to Brahmi. As there are no dedicated characters for long vowels, a vowel is made long by simply writing it twice. Kaddare alphabet The Kaddare alphabet is a writing script created to transcribe Somali, an Afro-Asiatic language. The orthography was invented in 1952 by Sheikh Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare of the Abgaal Hawiye clan. A phonetically robust writing system, the technical commissions that appraised the Kaddare script concurred that it was a very accurate orthography for transcribing Somali. The Kaddare script uses both upper and lower case letters, with the lower case represented in cursive. Many characters are transcribed