The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

Researchers are unsure if the same writing system was used throughout ... Like the other two examples, this alphabet descends from the Phoenician 22-letter alphabet, but has unique variations ...