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Greek alphabet — Greek people

~800 BC · Transmission: Global
LinguisticsSystemGreek

Archaic Greeks adapt the Phoenician abjad, adding letters dedicated to vowels (alpha, epsilon, iota, omicron, upsilon), creating history's first complete alphabet with explicit representation of consonants and vowels. It is the direct basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Glagolitic, Coptic, and Armenian alphabets, and thus of virtually all European writing systems.

Historical regionArchaic Greece — Eastern Mediterranean
Original languageGreek
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